The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 162
The girls, however, were very hungry, so they ate and drank with a good appetite.
Who acts: girls, milk · What happens: be, eat, drink
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, milk), 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 girls | det |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hungry | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 girls | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 hungry | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hungry | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 hungry | advmod |
| 8 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ate | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 ate | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ate | nsubj |
| 12 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hungry | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drank | cc |
| 14 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ate | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 appetite | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 appetite | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 appetite | amod |
| 18 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drank | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the girls | however, hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | milk | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drink | past | milk not said here | with a good appetite | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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 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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