The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 95

And he chewed the corn till he felt he was growing sleepy, and then he put some grit into his mouth, and that kept him awake till the bird came.

Who acts: boy, that, bird · What happens: chew, feel, grow, put, keep, come · To what, where: corn, grit, mouth, boy

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, that, bird), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 chewed	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chewed	nsubj
3	chewed	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corn	det
5	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chewed	obj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 felt	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 felt	nsubj
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chewed	advcl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 growing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 growing	aux
11	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 felt	ccomp
12	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 growing	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 put	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 put	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 put	nsubj
17	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chewed	conj
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 grit	det
19	grit	grit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 mouth	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mouth	nmod:poss
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kept	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 kept	cc
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 kept	nsubj
26	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chewed	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 kept	obj
28	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 kept	xcomp
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 came	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bird	det
31	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 kept	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chewed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	past	boy	the corn				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient
2	feel	past	boy					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	grow	past · progressive	boy				sleepy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	put	past	boy	some grit	boy's mouth	then		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent grit=Goal
5	keep	past	that	boy			awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	come	past	the bird					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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