The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 19

The children flung themselves down on the ground, and, after eating as many as they wanted, began to pile up their baskets, when suddenly a cry arose from one of the older boys:

Who acts: children, cry · What happens: fling down, eat, want, begin, pile up, arise · To what, where: children, ground, many, baskets

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, cry), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flung	nsubj
3	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 flung	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 flung	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flung	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 and	punct
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 eating	mark
13	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 began	advcl
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eating	obj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 wanted	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 many	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eating	punct
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flung	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 pile	mark
22	pile	pile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 pile	compound:prt
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 baskets	nmod:poss
25	baskets	basket	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pile	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 arose	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 arose	advmod
28	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	31 arose	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cry	det
30	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 arose	nsubj
31	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 began	conj
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 one	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 arose	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 boys	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 boys	det
36	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 boys	amod
37	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 one	nmod
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fling down	past	the children	children = child	the ground		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on ground=Destination
2	eat	gerund		many			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient
3	want	past	children = child				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	pile up	to-infinitive		children's baskets			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent basket=Theme
6	arise	past	a cry			from one of the older boys; suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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