The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 5

When they had eaten a great many pebbles they thought they had done enough for that day, and all went home together and curled themselves up to sleep.

Who acts: nyamatsanes · What happens: eat, think, do, go, curl up, sleep · To what, where: great many pebbles, nyamatsanes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (nyamatsanes), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 eaten	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 thought	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pebbles	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pebbles	amod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pebbles	amod
8	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eaten	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 done	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 done	aux
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 thought	ccomp
14	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 done	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 day	case
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 done	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 went	advmod
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	parataxis
22	home	home	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	together	together	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 curled	cc
25	curled	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 went	conj
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 curled	obj
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 curled	compound:prt
28	to	to	PART	_	29 sleep	mark
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 curled	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane	a great many pebbles			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Patient
2	think speech: other	past	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	past · perfect	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane		day	enough property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past				home, together property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	curl up	past		nyamatsanes = nyamatsane			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
6	sleep	to-infinitive					vn snooze-40.4-1 «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 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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