The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 41

They were astonished though at how greedily the Queen devoured the meat, and how much she ate of it, and were no longer surprised that she took so little when she sat at table with the King.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: astonish, devour, eat, be, take, sit · To what, where: fellows, meat, little, table

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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 astonished	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 astonished	aux:pass
3	astonished	astonish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	though	though	ADV	_	3 astonished	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	10 devoured	case
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 greedily	advmod
7	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	10 devoured	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Queen	det
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 devoured	nsubj
10	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 astonished	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 meat	det
12	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 devoured	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ate	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ate	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	18 ate	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ate	nsubj
18	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 astonished	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ate	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 surprised	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 surprised	cc
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 surprised	cop
24	no	no	ADV	_	25 longer	advmod
25	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 surprised	advmod
26	surprised	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ate	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 took	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	nsubj
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 surprised	ccomp
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 little	advmod
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 took	obj
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 sat	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sat	nsubj
34	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 took	advcl
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 table	case
36	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sat	obl
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 King	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 King	det
39	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 sat	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	astonish	past · passive		fellows = fellow		though property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	devour	past	the Queen	the meat		greedily property	vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
3	eat	past	Queen			of meat	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source
4	is	past	Queen not said here			long, surprise property	tree rules
5	take	past	Queen	little			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme
6	sit	past	Queen		table	with the King	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location

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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