The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 65

But Peronnik ate what was there with a hearty appetite, and thought that he had never tasted better food.

Who acts: Peronnik · What happens: eat, be, think, not taste · To what, where: better food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 ate	cc
2	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 there	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ate	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 appetite	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 appetite	det
9	hearty	hearty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 appetite	amod
10	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 tasted	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tasted	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tasted	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 tasted	advmod
18	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 thought	ccomp
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 food	amod
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tasted	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Peronnik		with a hearty appetite	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past			there property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	Peronnik not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not taste	past · perfect	Peronnik	better food		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme food=Attribute

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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