--- title: The children were delighted, and ran directly to find some flat ston… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The children were delighted, and ran directly to find some flat stones to bake their cakes on, and when they had made and eaten them, they thought they had never tasted anything so nice. Who acts: children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3282:36:18 # text = The children were delighted, and ran directly to find some flat stones to bake their cakes on, and when they had made and eaten them, they thought they had never tasted anything so nice. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 directly directly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 11 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 12 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 bake bake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 on on ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 when when SCONJ WRB _ 24 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 conj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 tasted taste VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 ccomp _ _ 35 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 34 obj _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the children | | | | | delighted *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **run** | past | the children *not said here* | | | | | directly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | the children *not said here* | some flat stones | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic | | 4 | **bake** | to-infinitive | the children *not said here* | children's cakes | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product | | 5 | **make** | past · perfect | children *= child* | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **eat** | participle | children *= child* *not said here* | cakes *= cake* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | children *= child* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **not** **taste** | past · perfect | children *= child* | anything | | | | nice *property* | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme anything=Attribute | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/19/) - ↑ back to [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/)