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title: Then Pinkel hastily poured all the contents of the bowl into his bag… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Pinkel hastily poured all the contents of the bowl into his bag, and make a great noise with his spoon, as if he was scraping up the last morsel. Who acts: Pinkel. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 58

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Then Pinkel hastily poured all the contents of the bowl into his bag, and make a great noise with his spoon, as if he was scraping up the last morsel.

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**Who acts:** Pinkel · **What happens:** pour, make, scrape up · **To what, where:** contents, bag, great noise, last morsel

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pinkel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:17:58
# text = Then Pinkel hastily poured all the contents of the bowl into his bag, and make a great noise with his spoon, as if he was scraping up the last morsel.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	scraping	scrape	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | past | Pinkel | all contents of the bowl |  | Pinkel's bag | then | hastily *property* | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent contents=Theme into bag=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | Pinkel *not said here* | a great noise |  |  |  | with Pinkel's spoon | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
| 3 | **scrape up** | past · progressive | Pinkel | the last morsel |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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