The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 77

He picked it up and ate it every bit, including the rind, and it was so good he thought he should like another.

Who acts: breeze, tree · What happens: pick up, eat, be, think, like · To what, where: tree, another · 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 (breeze, tree), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 picked	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 picked	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ate	cc
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ate	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rind	punct
11	including	including	ADP	_	13 rind	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rind	det
13	rind	rind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 good	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 good	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 good	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 good	advmod
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 picked	parataxis
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 good	acl:relcl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 like	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 like	aux
24	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thought	ccomp
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 like	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	breeze	tree		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	eat	past	breeze not said here	tree	every bit obl:unmarked	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is	past	tree		good property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	breeze			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	like	should	breeze	another		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot another=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 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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