The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 87

The girls were so much delighted with the kindness and cleverness of their hosts that, when the birds inquired if they would marry them and stay there for ever, they accepted without so much as giving it a second thought.

Who acts: girls, birds · What happens: be, inquire, marry, stay, accept, give · To what, where: hosts, much, cleverness

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, birds), 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 girls	det
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 delighted	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 delighted	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 delighted	advmod
6	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 kindness	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kindness	det
9	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 delighted	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cleverness	cc
11	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kindness	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 hosts	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hosts	nmod:poss
14	hosts	host	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cleverness	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 delighted	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 inquired	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 inquired	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 birds	det
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 inquired	nsubj
20	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 delighted	conj
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 marry	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 marry	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 marry	aux
24	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 inquired	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 marry	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stay	cc
27	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 marry	conj
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 stay	advmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 ever	case
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 stay	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 accepted	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 accepted	nsubj
33	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 delighted	parataxis
34	without	without	ADP	_	36 much	case
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 much	advmod
36	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 accepted	obj
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 giving	mark
38	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 accepted	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 giving	obj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 thought	det
41	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 thought	amod
42	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 giving	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the girls			with the kindness and cleverness of kindness's hosts; delighted property	tree rules
2	inquire speech: other	participle	the birds				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	marry a condition, not said to happen	would	birds = bird	hosts = host			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	stay	infinitive	birds = bird not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	accept	past	birds = bird	much			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme
6	give	gerund	birds = bird not said here	cleverness			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient thought=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 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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