The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 69

For a long while whey pretended to each other that they had no appetite, and that a few blackberries from the hedges were a great deal nicer than a good strong bowl of soup.

Who acts: whey, bread, few blackberries · What happens: pretend, have, be · To what, where: appetite, great deal

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whey, bread, few blackberries), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 long	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 long	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 pretended	mark
5	whey	whey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pretended	nsubj
6	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 long	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	6 pretended	obl
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretended	advcl
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 appetite	det
14	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 deal	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 deal	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 deal	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 blackberries	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 blackberries	amod
20	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 deal	nsubj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 hedges	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hedges	det
23	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 blackberries	nmod
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 deal	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 deal	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 deal	amod
27	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 long	conj
28	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 deal	amod
29	than	than	ADP	_	33 bowl	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bowl	det
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bowl	amod
32	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bowl	amod
33	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nicer	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 soup	case
35	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bowl	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	whey		to each	tree rules
2	have	past	bread	no appetite		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=Patient
3	is a	past	a few blackberries from the hedges	a great deal		tree rules

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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