The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 2

And they led their grandmother outside, and all of them began hungrily to eat pebbles.

Who acts: they, all · What happens: lead, begin, eat · To what, where: grandmother, pebbles

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, all), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 led	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 led	nsubj
3	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandmother	nmod:poss
5	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obj
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	3 led	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 began	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 all	nmod
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	conj
13	hungrily	hungrily	ADV	_	12 began	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 eat	mark
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
16	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 eat	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lead	past	they	their grandmother	outside property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme
2	begin	past	all		hungrily property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	eat	to-infinitive	all not said here	pebbles		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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