The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 60
I have eaten it, every scrap; do give me some more,' said Pinkel, turning towards her.
Who acts: I, Pinkel · What happens: eat, give, say, turn · To what, where: porridge, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Pinkel), 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 | 3 eaten | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eaten | aux |
| 3 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 eaten | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 scrap | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 scrap | det |
| 7 | scrap | scrap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eaten | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 eaten | parataxis |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 more | det |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 more | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 more | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | advcl |
| 17 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turning | punct |
| 19 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 said | advcl |
| 20 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turning | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · perfect | I | porridge | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive · do-support | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Pinkel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | turn | gerund | Pinkel not said here | towards woman | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards she=Trajectory |
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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