The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 6

They were horribly jealous, and ready to eat each other up for her sake, so they readily accepted the charge.

Who acts: dominions · What happens: be, eat up, accept · To what, where: each, charge

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dominions), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jealous	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jealous	cop
3	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	4 jealous	advmod
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ready	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ready	cc
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jealous	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ready	xcomp
10	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 eat	obj
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 each	fixed
12	up	up	ADP	_	9 eat	compound:prt
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 sake	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sake	nmod:poss
15	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 accepted	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 accepted	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 accepted	nsubj
19	readily	readily	ADV	_	20 accepted	advmod
20	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jealous	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 charge	det
22	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 accepted	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 jealous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	dominions = dominion		horribly, jealous property	tree rules
2	be		dominions = dominion not said here			tree rules
3	eat up	to-infinitive	dominions = dominion not said here	each	for wife's sake	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient
4	accept	past	dominions = dominion	the charge	readily property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=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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