The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 29

As it was a long while since they had eaten a bit, she bought thrice as much meat as would sup two people.

Who acts: butcher, makers, wife · What happens: be, eat, buy, sup · To what, where: bit, much meat, two people

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (butcher, makers, wife), 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	As	as	ADP	_	6 while	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 while	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 while	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 while	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 while	amod
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eaten	obl
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	10 eaten	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eaten	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eaten	aux
10	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eaten	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bought	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bought	nsubj
15	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eaten	conj
16	thrice	thrice	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 meat	amod
19	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bought	obj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 sup	mark
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sup	aux
22	sup	sup	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 bought	advcl
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 people	nummod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sup	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is	past	butcher		as a long while	tree rules
2	eat	past · perfect	makers = maker	a bit		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	buy	past	wife	much meat		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme
4	sup	would	wife not said here	two people		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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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