The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 182

Well, one of them had a little, so they shared it among them, though there was very little for each man, but they chewed it.

Who acts: one, teeth · What happens: have, share, be, chew · To what, where: little, third

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, teeth), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 had	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shared	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 shared	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shared	nsubj
12	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shared	obj
14	among	among	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shared	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 little	punct
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 was	mark
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 little	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 little	advmod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shared	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 man	case
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 little	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 chewed	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 chewed	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 chewed	nsubj
28	chewed	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 chewed	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	one of teeth	a little		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient
2	share	past	teeth = tooth	third	among horses = horse	tree rules
3	is	past	teeth = tooth not said here		for each man; little property	tree rules
4	chew	past	teeth = tooth	third		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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