The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 72

'We are hungry; give us some corn! give us some corn!' cried they; and the girl answered:

Who acts: We, girls, girl · What happens: be, give, cry, answer · To what, where: corn, us

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, girls, girl), 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 hungry	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hungry	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cried	parataxis
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hungry	parataxis
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 corn	det
9	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 corn	punct
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	conj
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 corn	det
14	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cried	nsubj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 answered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 answered	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 girl	det
22	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 answered	nsubj
23	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cried	parataxis
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	We			hungry property	tree rules
2	give	infinitive		some corn	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient corn=Theme
3	give	infinitive		some corn	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient corn=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	girls = girl				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	answer speech: assert	past	the girl				vn reciprocate-112-1 «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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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