Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 29

You want some-thing to eat, but you do not want to work!"

Who acts: You · What happens: want, eat, not want, work · To what, where: thing

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 thing	det
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 some	punct
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 want	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 want	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 want	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 want	advmod
13	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 work	mark
15	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 want	xcomp
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	present	You	some thing	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	You not said here	some thing not said here	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not want	present · do-support	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	work not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn employment-95.3 «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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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