The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 12
They did not much care to eat frogs or lizards.
What happens: eat · To what, where: frogs, much care
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 care | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 care | amod |
| 5 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 care | acl |
| 8 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eat | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 lizards | cc |
| 10 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 frogs | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | to-infinitive | frogs or lizards | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient |
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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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