The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 18

The children were delighted, and ran directly to find some flat stones to bake their cakes on, and when they had made and eaten them, they thought they had never tasted anything so nice.

Who acts: children · What happens: be, run, find, bake, make, eat · To what, where: flat stones, cakes, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 delighted	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ran	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	conj
8	directly	directly	ADV	_	7 ran	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ran	advcl
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 stones	det
12	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stones	amod
13	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 find	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 bake	mark
15	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 find	advcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 cakes	nmod:poss
17	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bake	obj
18	on	on	ADV	_	15 bake	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 made	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 made	aux
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 delighted	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 eaten	cc
26	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 made	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 eaten	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thought	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thought	nsubj
30	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	parataxis
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 tasted	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 tasted	aux
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 tasted	advmod
34	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 thought	ccomp
35	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 tasted	obj
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 nice	advmod
37	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 tasted	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the children		delighted property	tree rules
2	run	past	the children not said here		directly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive	the children not said here	some flat stones		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic
4	bake	to-infinitive	the children not said here	children's cakes		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product
5	make	past · perfect	children = child			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	eat	participle	children = child not said here	cakes = cake		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
7	think speech: other	past	children = child			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	not taste	past · perfect	children = child	anything	nice property	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme anything=Attribute

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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