The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 73

'You poor little birds, of course you shall have some!' and scattered a fine handful over the floor.

Who acts: you · What happens: have, scatter · To what, where: some, fine handful, floor

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 (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	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 birds	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 birds	nsubj
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 birds	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 birds	amod
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 have	mark
8	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 of	fixed
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
10	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 birds	parataxis
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 have	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 scattered	cc
16	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 have	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 handful	det
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 handful	amod
19	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 scattered	obj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 floor	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 floor	det
22	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 scattered	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 birds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	shall	you	some					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
2	scatter	past	you not said here	a fine handful		the floor			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent handful=Theme over floor=Destination

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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