More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 129

Well, when they had all eaten, and had devoured every scrap of beef on the cow, they began playing games with the bones, tossing them one to another.

Who acts: bones · What happens: eat, devour, begin, play, toss · To what, where: scrap, games, bones

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 eaten	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eaten	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 eaten	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eaten	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	aux
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 eaten	advmod
7	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 devoured	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 devoured	cc
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 devoured	aux
11	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 eaten	conj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 scrap	det
13	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 devoured	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 beef	case
15	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 scrap	nmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 cow	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cow	det
18	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 devoured	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	conj
22	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 began	xcomp
23	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 playing	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 bones	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bones	det
26	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 playing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tossing	punct
28	tossing	toss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 playing	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tossing	obj
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 tossing	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 another	case
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 one	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	bones = bone		all property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	devour	past · perfect	bones = bone not said here	every scrap of beef	on the cow	vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scrap=Patient
3	begin	past	bones = bone			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	play	gerund	bones = bone not said here	games	with the bones	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with bone=Co-Agent
5	toss	gerund	bones = bone not said here	bones = bone	one to another obl	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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