The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 34

The worst of it was that they soon began to get hungry again, and the wolf, who was the hungriest of all, said to the rest:

Who acts: men, wolf · What happens: be, get, say · To what, where: rest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, wolf), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 worst	det
2	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 worst	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 began	cop
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 began	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 began	advmod
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 worst	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 get	xcomp
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 get	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hungriest	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hungriest	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wolf	det
17	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hungriest	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hungriest	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 hungriest	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hungriest	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hungriest	det
22	hungriest	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 began	xcomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 hungriest	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 began	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 rest	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rest	det
29	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	obl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 worst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	men = man			begin, soon property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	men = man not said here		again	hungry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	the wolf			of all; hungry property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	men = man not said here	the rest			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to rest=Recipient

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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