The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 13

His eldest brother was delighted with this proposal, and the two wicked wretches seized Ferko’s loaf and ate it all up, while the poor boy was still asleep.

Who acts: eldest brother, two wicked wretches, poor boy · What happens: be, seize, eat up · To what, where: loaf, proposal

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest brother, two wicked wretches, poor boy), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 delighted	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	cop
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 proposal	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 proposal	det
8	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 delighted	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seized	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seized	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wretches	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 wretches	nummod
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wretches	amod
14	wretches	wretch	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 seized	nsubj
15	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	parataxis
16	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 loaf	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Ferko	case
18	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seized	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ate	cc
20	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seized	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ate	obj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 it	det
23	up	up	ADP	_	20 ate	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 asleep	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 asleep	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boy	det
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 boy	amod
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 asleep	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 asleep	cop
30	still	still	ADV	_	31 asleep	advmod
31	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ate	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ferko's eldest brother			with this proposal; delighted property	tree rules
2	seize	past	the two wicked wretches	Ferko's loaf			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme
3	eat up	past	the two wicked wretches not said here	proposal			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is	past	the poor boy		still	asleep property	tree rules

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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