The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 247
However, to make up, the other guests ate greedily, and, as for Tubby, nothing ever took away his appetite.
Who acts: other guests, nothing · What happens: make up, eat, take away · To what, where: appetite
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other guests, nothing), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 make | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 make | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ate | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 guests | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 guests | amod |
| 9 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ate | nsubj |
| 10 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | conj |
| 11 | greedily | greedily | ADV | _ | 10 ate | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 Tubby | case |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Tubby | case |
| 17 | Tubby | Tubby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nothing | punct |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 took | nsubj |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 took | advmod |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 22 | away | away | ADP | _ | 21 took | compound:prt |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 appetite | nmod:poss |
| 24 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | to-infinitive | however property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | past | the other guests | greedily property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take away | past | nothing | feast's appetite | ever | as Tubby | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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