More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 77
It's better for you to come with me and have some refreshments; I know that you are hungry all this time."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, come, have, know · To what, where: refreshments · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 better | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 better | csubj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 come | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 have | cc |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | conj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 refreshments | det |
| 13 | refreshments | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 hungry | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 hungry | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hungry | cop |
| 20 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 know | ccomp |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 time | det:predet |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 know | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | you | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | you not said here | some refreshments | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refreshment=Patient | ||||
| 4 | know | present | I | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | present | you | hungry property | tree rules |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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