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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 52

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She offered them some of the food which was already on the table, and they thought it so delicious that they even licked their fingers so as not to lose a morsel.

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**Who acts:** princess, food, sweetmeats · **What happens:** offer, be, think, lick, not lose · **To what, where:** some, sweetmeats, table, fingers, morsel

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, food, sweetmeats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg641:39:52
# text = She offered them some of the food which was already on the table, and they thought it so delicious that they even licked their fingers so as not to lose a morsel.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	already	already	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	licked	lick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past | princess | some | sweetmeats *= sweetmeat* |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal some=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the food |  |  | the table |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | sweetmeats *= sweetmeat* | table |  |  |  | delicious *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 4 | **lick** | past | sweetmeats *= sweetmeat* | sweetmeats's fingers |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent finger=Source |
| 5 | **not** **lose** | to-infinitive | sweetmeats *= sweetmeat* *not said here* | a morsel |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Eventuality |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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