The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 85

They did not much care to eat frogs or lizards.

What happens: eat · To what, where: frogs

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. 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.

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	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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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