English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 90

When they began to eat the meat, that was so tasteless they couldn't eat it.

Who acts: twas, that · What happens: begin, eat, be, not eat · To what, where: meat

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twas, that), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 began	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meat	det
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tasteless	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 tasteless	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tasteless	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 tasteless	advmod
12	tasteless	tasteless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 began	parataxis
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eat	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 eat	advmod
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tasteless	ccomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eat	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	twas = twa			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	to-infinitive	twas = twa not said here	the meat		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
3	is	past	that		tasteless property	tree rules
4	not eat	could	twas = twa	meat		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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