The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 86
He wrung the chicken’s neck, plunged it into boiling water, carefully plucked out all the feathers, and rubbed the skin nice and smooth.
Who acts: scent · What happens: wring, plunge, boil, pluck out, rub · To what, where: neck, boiling water, feathers, skin
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wrung | nsubj |
| 2 | wrung | wring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chicken | det |
| 4 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 neck | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 chicken | case |
| 6 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrung | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 plunged | punct |
| 8 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wrung | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 plunged | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 water | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plunged | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 plucked | punct |
| 14 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 15 plucked | advmod |
| 15 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 plunged | parataxis |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 plucked | compound:prt |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 feathers | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 feathers | det |
| 19 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 plucked | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rubbed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rubbed | cc |
| 22 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wrung | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 skin | det |
| 24 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rubbed | obj |
| 25 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rubbed | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 smooth | cc |
| 27 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nice | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wring | past | scent | the chicken's neck | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | ||||
| 2 | plunge | past | scent not said here | neck | boiling water | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 3 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | pluck out | participle | all feathers | carefully property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | ||||
| 5 | rub | past | scent not said here | the skin | nice property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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