The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 45

They sat down to supper, and ate with such a good appetite as pleased both father and mother, whom they acquainted how frightened they were in the forest, speaking almost always all together.

Who acts: makers · What happens: sit down, eat, acquaint, frighten, be, speak · To what, where: pleased father, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (makers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 supper	case
5	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ate	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ate	cc
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 appetite	case
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 appetite	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 appetite	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 appetite	amod
13	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 father	case
15	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 father	amod
16	both	both	CCONJ	_	17 father	cc:preconj
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 mother	cc
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 father	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 acquainted	punct
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 acquainted	obj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 acquainted	nsubj
23	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 father	conj
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 frightened	advmod
25	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 forest	advcl
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 forest	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 forest	cop
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 forest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 forest	det
30	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 acquainted	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 speaking	punct
32	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ate	advcl
33	almost	almost	ADV	_	34 always	advmod
34	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 speaking	advmod
35	all	all	ADV	_	36 together	advmod
36	together	together	ADV	_	32 speaking	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	makers = maker			to supper	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past	makers = maker not said here			with such good appetite; as pleased father and mother	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	acquaint speech: other	past	makers = maker	pleased father and mother			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient
4	frighten	participle	makers = maker not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	makers = maker		the forest		tree rules
6	speak speech: other	gerund	makers = maker not said here			always, together property	vn talk-37.5 «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 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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