The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 199

But the children, who had had nothing to eat since their father had left them, came rushing towards him, waving knives in their right hands and forks in their left, and crying, ‘Give us dragon’s flesh; we will have dragon’s flesh.’

Who acts: children, father, we · What happens: have, eat, leave, come, rush, wave · To what, where: nothing, children, knives, flesh, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, father, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 had	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	aux
7	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 children	acl:relcl
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 had	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 nothing	acl
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	15 left	mark
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 left	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 left	aux
15	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 eat	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 left	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 children	punct
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 came	xcomp
20	towards	towards	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rushing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waving	punct
23	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 rushing	conj
24	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 waving	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 hands	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hands	nmod:poss
27	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hands	amod
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 waving	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 forks	cc
30	forks	fork	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hands	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 left	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 left	nmod:poss
33	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 waving	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 crying	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 crying	cc
36	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 came	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Give	punct
38	‘	'	PUNCT	_	39 Give	punct
39	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 crying	ccomp
40	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 Give	iobj
41	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 flesh	nmod:poss
42	’s	's	PART	_	41 dragon	case
43	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Give	obj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 have	punct
45	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 have	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 have	aux
47	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 came	conj
48	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 flesh	nmod:poss
49	’s	's	PART	_	48 dragon	case
50	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 have	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 have	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	47 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past · perfect	the children	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive	the children not said here	nothing not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	leave	past · perfect	children's father	children = child			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	come	past	the children				tree rules
5	rush	gerund	the children not said here			towards Father	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination
6	wave	gerund	the children not said here	knives		in children's left; in children's right hands and forks	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent knife=Patient in hand=Theme
7	cry speech: express	gerund	the children not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	give	infinitive		dragon's flesh	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient flesh=Theme
9	have	future	we	dragon's flesh			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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