The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 98

So they went to the barn, and ate till they could eat no more.

Who acts: People · What happens: go, eat · To what, where: barn, more

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 (People), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 barn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 barn	det
6	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ate	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ate	cc
9	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 eat	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	aux
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ate	ccomp
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 eat	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	People		the barn	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to barn=Initial_Location
2	eat	past	People not said here			tree rules
3	eat	could	People	more		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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: «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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