The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 52

She offered them some of the food which was already on the table, and they thought it so delicious that they even licked their fingers so as not to lose a morsel.

Who acts: princess, food, sweetmeats · What happens: offer, be, think, lick, not lose · To what, where: some, sweetmeats, table, fingers, morsel

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, food, sweetmeats), 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 offered	nsubj
2	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offered	iobj
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 offered	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 food	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 food	det
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 some	nmod
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 table	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 table	cop
10	already	already	ADV	_	13 table	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 table	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 table	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thought	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 offered	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	obj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 delicious	advmod
20	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thought	xcomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 licked	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 licked	nsubj
23	even	even	ADV	_	24 licked	advmod
24	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 delicious	advcl
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fingers	nmod:poss
26	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 licked	obj
27	so	so	ADV	_	31 lose	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 lose	mark
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 lose	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 lose	mark
31	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 licked	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 morsel	det
33	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lose	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	offer	past	princess	some	sweetmeats = sweetmeat			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal some=Theme
2	is	past	the food			the table		tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	sweetmeats = sweetmeat	table			delicious property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	lick	past	sweetmeats = sweetmeat	sweetmeats's fingers				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent finger=Source
5	not lose	to-infinitive	sweetmeats = sweetmeat not said here	a morsel				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=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 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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