More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 79
But when she had eaten all this, she was just as hungry as before, so she said to herself: "Oh! how I wish I had something to eat."
Who acts: wife · What happens: eat, be, say, wish, have · To what, where: this, wife, something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 hungry | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 eaten | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eaten | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 hungry | advcl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 this | det:predet |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 eaten | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hungry | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hungry | cop |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 hungry | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 hungry | advmod |
| 13 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 before | case |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 hungry | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 said | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hungry | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 herself | case |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 said | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 wish | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 wish | punct |
| 24 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 28 wish | discourse |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 Oh | punct |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 wish | advmod |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 wish | nsubj |
| 28 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 wish | ccomp |
| 31 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 30 had | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 eat | mark |
| 33 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 something | acl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hungry | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | wife | this | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | wife | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | wife | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | present | wife | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | past | wife | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 6 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | wife not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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