Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 32

I do not know whether he had any-thing to eat that night, or whether he had to go to bed without his supper.

Who acts: I, king · What happens: not know, have, eat, go · To what, where: thing, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, king), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 thing	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 any	punct
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 eat	mark
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thing	acl
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eat	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 bed	case
23	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
24	without	without	ADP	_	26 supper	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 supper	nmod:poss
26	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past	king	any thing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
3	eat	to-infinitive	king not said here	any thing not said here		night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	king					tree rules
5	go	to-infinitive	king not said here		bed		without king's supper	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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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