Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 65

At first the robbers were very glad to find themselves safe in the thick wood, but they soon began to get vexed.

Who acts: robbers · What happens: be, find, begin, vex · To what, where: robbers

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 glad	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 glad	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 glad	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 glad	advmod
7	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 find	mark
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 glad	xcomp
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 find	obj
11	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 find	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 wood	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wood	amod
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 safe	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 began	nsubj
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 began	advmod
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 glad	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	23 vexed	mark
22	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 vexed	aux:pass
23	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 began	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the robbers		glad property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	the robbers not said here	robbers = robber	safe property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic
3	begin	past	robbers = robber		soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	vex	to-infinitive · passive	robbers = robber not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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