The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 73

In a few minutes the company began to eat and drink.

Who acts: company · What happens: begin, eat, drink

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 minutes	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 minutes	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 minutes	amod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 began	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 company	det
6	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drink	cc
11	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eat	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	begin	past	the company	minute	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	to-infinitive	the company not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	infinitive	the company not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «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 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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