The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 56

They were so hungry by this time that they did not care much whether they paid for it or not, so they followed Ciccu, who gave his orders to the host.

Who acts: brothers, Ciccu · What happens: be, not care, pay, follow, give, order · To what, where: orders, host

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, Ciccu), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hungry	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 hungry	advmod
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hungry	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 care	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 care	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 care	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 care	advmod
12	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hungry	advcl
13	much	much	ADV	_	12 care	advmod
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	16 paid	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 paid	nsubj
16	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 care	advcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 paid	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 not	cc
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 paid	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 followed	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 followed	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 followed	nsubj
24	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	parataxis
25	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 gave	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gave	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 gave	nsubj
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 followed	parataxis
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 orders	nmod:poss
30	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gave	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 host	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 host	det
33	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	brothers = brother			time	hungry property	tree rules
2	not care	past · do-support	brothers = brother					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	pay	past	brothers = brother				for inn	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
4	follow	past	brothers = brother					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	past	Ciccu	Ciccu's orders	the host			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Theme to host=Recipient
6	order		Ciccu					nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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