The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 27

Like lightning he seized a bit of bread, dipped it in the bowl, and put it in his mouth, then dashed away as if fire was pursuing him.

Who acts: noise, fire · What happens: seize, dip, put, dash away, pursue · To what, where: bit, bowl, mouth, noise

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, fire), 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	Like	like	ADP	_	2 lightning	case
2	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seized	nsubj
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 bread	case
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dipped	punct
10	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dipped	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 bowl	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bowl	det
14	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dipped	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 put	cc
17	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seized	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 put	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 mouth	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mouth	nmod:poss
21	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dashed	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 dashed	advmod
24	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 dashed	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 pursuing	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 pursuing	mark
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pursuing	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 pursuing	aux
30	pursuing	pursue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 dashed	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 pursuing	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	noise	a bit of bread			like lightning	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
2	dip	past	noise not said here	bit	the bowl			vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bowl=Trajectory
3	put	infinitive	noise not said here	bit	noise's mouth			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in mouth=Destination
4	dash away	past	noise not said here			then	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pursue	past · progressive	fire	noise				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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