The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 39

She began to eat out of it, and never stopped till she had finished it.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: begin, eat out, not stop, finish · To what, where: room

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 it	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stopped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stopped	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 stopped	advmod
11	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 finished	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 finished	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 finished	aux
15	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 stopped	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 finished	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	Queen		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat out	to-infinitive	Queen not said here	room	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	not stop	past	Queen not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	finish	past · perfect	Queen	room	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality

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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