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title: In an instant Pinkel again emptied the porridge into the bag, and th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In an instant Pinkel again emptied the porridge into the bag, and the next minute he rolled on the floor, twisting himself about as if in agony, uttering loud groans the while. Who acts: next minute, uttering. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependenc
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 63

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In an instant Pinkel again emptied the porridge into the bag, and the next minute he rolled on the floor, twisting himself about as if in agony, uttering loud groans the while.

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**Who acts:** next minute, uttering · **What happens:** empty, roll, twist, utter, groan · **To what, where:** porridge, instant, floor, Pinkel

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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 (next minute, uttering), 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:pg3027:17:63
# text = In an instant Pinkel again emptied the porridge into the bag, and the next minute he rolled on the floor, twisting himself about as if in agony, uttering loud groans the while.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	emptied	empty	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	twisting	twist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	uttering	utter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	csubj	_	_
32	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	groans	groan	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **empty** | past |  | the porridge |  | a instant | again | into the bag | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent porridge=Theme into bag=Destination |
| 2 | **roll** | past | the next minute |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory |
| 3 | **twist** | gerund | the next minute *not said here* | Pinkel |  |  |  | as agony; about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 4 | **utter** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **groan** | present | uttering |  |  |  | while |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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