Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 35

He put down the cup again, raised a couple of drops on the top of his finger, and put it to his mouth.

Who acts: herb · What happens: put down, raise, put · To what, where: cup, couple

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herb), 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 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 put	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cup	det
5	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 put	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 raised	punct
8	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 couple	det
10	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 raised	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 drops	case
12	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 couple	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 top	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 top	det
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drops	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 finger	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 finger	nmod:poss
18	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 top	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 raised	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 mouth	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mouth	nmod:poss
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put down	past	herb	the cup	again		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cup=Goal
2	raise	past		a couple of drops on the top of herb's finger			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Theme
3	put	infinitive		cup		to herb's mouth	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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