The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 88

His appetite was tremendous: he soon cleared all the dishes, and ate enough to satisfy a dozen men.

Who acts: appetite, master · What happens: be, clear, eat, satisfy · To what, where: dishes, dozen men

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appetite, master), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 appetite	nmod:poss
2	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tremendous	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tremendous	cop
4	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 cleared	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cleared	nsubj
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 cleared	advmod
8	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tremendous	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 dishes	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dishes	det
11	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cleared	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ate	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ate	cc
14	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tremendous	conj
15	enough	enough	ADV	_	14 ate	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 satisfy	mark
17	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ate	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dozen	det
19	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 men	nummod
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 satisfy	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tremendous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	master's appetite		tremendous property	tree rules
2	clear	past	master	all dishes	soon property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent dish=Source
3	eat	past	master's appetite not said here		enough property	tree rules
4	satisfy	to-infinitive	master's appetite not said here	dozen men		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer

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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