The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 29

The children shook hands with the old man and thanked him, feeling very glad that they had saved the little raspberry worm.

Who acts: children · What happens: shake, thank, feel, save · To what, where: hands, man, little raspberry worm

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. 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	3 shook	nsubj
3	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shook	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shook	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thanked	cc
10	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shook	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thanked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 feeling	punct
13	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 thanked	advcl
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 glad	advmod
15	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 feeling	xcomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 saved	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saved	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saved	aux
19	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 glad	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 worm	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 worm	amod
22	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 worm	compound
23	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saved	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the children	hands		with the old man	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with man=Co-Patient
2	thank speech: thank	past	the children not said here		man		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	feel	gerund	the children not said here			glad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	save	past · perfect	children = child	the little raspberry worm			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=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 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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