The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 38

But even she found that it was not so easy to look after a hundred children, and when a few days had passed and they had eaten up all the food there was in the house, they began to cry, ‘Father!

Who acts: crowd, children · What happens: find, not be, look, pass, eat up, be · To what, where: few days, food, house, Father

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 (crowd, children), 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	_	4 found	cc
2	even	even	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 easy	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 easy	expl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 easy	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 easy	advmod
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 easy	advmod
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 look	mark
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 easy	csubj
13	after	after	ADP	_	16 children	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hundred	det
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 children	nummod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 look	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 passed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 passed	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 passed	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 days	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 days	amod
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 passed	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 passed	aux
24	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 found	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 eaten	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eaten	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 eaten	aux
28	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 passed	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 eaten	compound:prt
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 food	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 food	det
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eaten	obj
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 was	expl
34	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 eaten	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 house	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 house	det
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 was	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 began	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 began	nsubj
40	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 cry	mark
42	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 began	xcomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Father	punct
44	‘	'	PUNCT	_	45 Father	punct
45	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 cry	obj
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	crowd					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past					easy property	tree rules
3	look	to-infinitive				after hundred children		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	pass	past · perfect · passive		a few days				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
5	eat up	past · perfect	children = child	all food				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
6	be	past	children = child not said here		the house; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
7	begin	past	children = child					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	Father				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic

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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