The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 70
“I am sure of my supper, but let us have a mouthful of something first, just to give us an appetite.”
Who acts: dragon, us · What happens: be, let, have, give · To what, where: us, mouthful, appetite
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, us), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 supper | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 supper | nmod:poss |
| 7 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sure | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | parataxis |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mouthful | det |
| 14 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 something | case |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 mouthful | nmod |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 have | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 give | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 give | mark |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | conj |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 appetite | det |
| 24 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 give | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the dragon = dragon | of my supper; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | a mouthful of something | first property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Patient | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | a appetite | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient appetite=Theme |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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