The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 29

‘Very well,’ answered the boy, and he went down, and he scraped and scraped till there was not so much honey left as would cover the point of a needle.

Who acts: boy · What happens: answer, go down, scrape, be, leave, cover · To what, where: boy, much honey, point, needle

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 answered	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 scraped	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 scraped	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 scraped	nsubj
17	scraped	scrape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 scraped	cc
19	scraped	scrape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 scraped	conj
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 was	mark
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 scraped	advcl
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 much	advmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 honey	amod
26	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 scraped	obj
27	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 honey	acl
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 cover	mark
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 cover	aux
30	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 left	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 point	det
32	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cover	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 needle	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 needle	det
35	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 point	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			the boy		well property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
2	go down	past	boy				down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	scrape	past	boy					vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	scrape	past	boy not said here	much honey				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient
5	be	past	boy not said here			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	participle		much honey not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cover	would		the point of a needle				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme point=Destination
8	point			a needle				nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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