The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 71

Whereupon he began to eat some huge boulders as if they had been cakes, and when he had quite finished, he offered Paul one.

Who acts: supper, boulders · What happens: begin, eat, be, finish, offer · To what, where: huge boulders, Paul

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (supper, boulders), 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	Whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	3 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 offered	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 boulders	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boulders	amod
8	boulders	boulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	14 cakes	case
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 cakes	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cakes	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cakes	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 cakes	cop
14	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 finished	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 finished	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 finished	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 finished	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 finished	aux
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 finished	advmod
21	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 began	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 offered	nsubj
24	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 offered	iobj
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 Paul	flat
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	supper			whereupon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	to-infinitive	supper not said here	some huge boulders			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boulder=Patient
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	boulders = boulder			as cakes	tree rules
4	finish	past · perfect	supper				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	offer	past	supper		Paul		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent paul=Theme

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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