The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 53

Of course they did not keep the news of their discovery to themselves, but told all their companions that they had just been enjoying the best supper they had had since they were born.

Who acts: sweetmeats · What happens: not keep, tell, enjoy, have, bear, discover · To what, where: news, sweetmeats, companions, best supper · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 course	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 keep	advmod
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 news	det
8	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 discovery	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 discovery	nmod:poss
11	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 news	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 themselves	case
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 keep	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	parataxis
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 companions	det:predet
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 companions	nmod:poss
19	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 told	obj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 enjoying	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 enjoying	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 enjoying	aux
23	just	just	ADV	_	25 enjoying	advmod
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 enjoying	aux
25	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 told	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 supper	det
27	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 supper	amod
28	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 enjoying	obj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 had	aux
31	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 supper	acl:relcl
32	since	since	SCONJ	_	35 born	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 born	nsubj:pass
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 born	aux:pass
35	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 had	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not keep	past · do-support	sweetmeats = sweetmeat	the news of sweetmeats's discovery	sweetmeats = sweetmeat	of course	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past		sweetmeats's companions			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent companion=Recipient
3	enjoy	past · perfect · progressive	sweetmeats = sweetmeat	the best supper			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer supper=Stimulus
4	have	past · perfect	sweetmeats = sweetmeat	the best supper not said here			tree rules
5	bear	past · passive		sweetmeats = sweetmeat			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	discover		sweetmeats = sweetmeat				nom discovery «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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