The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 7

They were so hungry that they ate the food up greedily without speaking, but when there was nothing left in the pot, the eldest one said:

Who acts: buckets, nothing, eldest one · What happens: be, eat up, speak, leave, say · To what, where: food, pot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buckets, nothing, eldest one), 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 hungry	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 hungry	advmod
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 ate	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ate	nsubj
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 food	det
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	7 ate	compound:prt
11	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	7 ate	advmod
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 speaking	mark
13	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 ate	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 was	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 was	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 was	advmod
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	parataxis
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 was	nsubj
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 nothing	acl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 pot	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pot	det
23	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 left	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 one	det
26	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 one	amod
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	conj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	buckets = bucket			hungry property	tree rules
2	eat up	past	buckets = bucket	the food		greedily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
3	speak speech: other	gerund	buckets = bucket not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be	past	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	leave	participle				in the pot result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in pot=Result
6	say speech: assert	past	the eldest one				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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