The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 88

The good woman was overjoyed at this, and gave them a good supper; but they were so much afraid they could not eat a bit.

Who acts: feet · What happens: overjoy, give, be, not eat · To what, where: good woman, this, good supper, feet, bit

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 (feet), 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	3 woman	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overjoyed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 overjoyed	aux:pass
5	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 overjoyed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 overjoyed	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 supper	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 supper	amod
14	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 afraid	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 afraid	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 afraid	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 afraid	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	21 afraid	advmod
21	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 overjoyed	advcl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 eat	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 eat	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 eat	advmod
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 afraid	ccomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bit	det
27	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eat	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 overjoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	overjoy	past · passive		the good woman		this		tree rules
2	give	past		a good supper	feet = foot			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient supper=Theme
3	is	past	feet = foot				afraid property	tree rules
4	not eat	could	feet = foot	a bit				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient

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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