The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 34

Indeed, they were so bold that they snatched pieces of food from the King’s own plate, and if he drove them away, tried to bite his hands, so that he could not eat his food, and his courtiers fared no better.

Who acts: miles, king, courtiers · What happens: be, snatch, drive away, try, bite, not eat · To what, where: pieces, own plate, hands, food

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, king, courtiers), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 bold	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bold	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bold	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 bold	advmod
6	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 snatched	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 snatched	nsubj
9	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bold	advcl
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 snatched	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 food	case
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pieces	nmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	18 plate	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 plate	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 King	case
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 plate	amod
18	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snatched	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tried	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 drove	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drove	nsubj
23	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tried	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drove	obj
25	away	away	ADV	_	23 drove	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drove	punct
27	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bold	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 bite	mark
29	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tried	xcomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hands	nmod:poss
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bite	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 eat	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 eat	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 eat	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 eat	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 eat	advmod
38	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 bite	conj
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 food	nmod:poss
40	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 eat	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 fared	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 fared	cc
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 courtiers	nmod:poss
44	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 fared	nsubj
45	fared	fare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tried	conj
46	no	no	ADV	_	47 better	advmod
47	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	45 fared	xcomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	miles = mile			bold, indeed property	tree rules
2	snatch	past	miles = mile	pieces of food	the King's own plate		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from plate=Source
3	drive away a condition, not said to happen	past	king	pieces = piece		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	try	past					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	bite not said to happen	to-infinitive		king's hands			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
6	not eat	could	king	king's food			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
7	fare	past	king's courtiers			good property	tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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