The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 80

‘Some one has been eating our dinner,’ cried they, ‘and there was hardly enough for ourselves.’

Who acts: one, ’, men · What happens: eat, cry, be · To what, where: dinner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, ’, men), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 eating	punct
2	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eating	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 eating	aux
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dinner	nmod:poss
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
10	’	'	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dinner	acl:relcl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ourselves	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 they	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 was	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ourselves	cop
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	19 enough	advmod
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	17 was	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 ourselves	case
21	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 cried	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 eating	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 eating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present · perfect · progressive	some one	our dinner		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	’			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	men = man		for ourselves	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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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