The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 61
'Well, you have a fine appetite, young man,' answered the witch; 'however, it is the last time you will ever eat it, so I will give you another bowlful.'
Who acts: you, porridge, I · What happens: have, answer, be, eat, give · To what, where: fine appetite, witch, last time, porridge, bowlful, you
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 (you, porridge, I), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 appetite | det |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 appetite | amod |
| 8 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appetite | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 witch | det |
| 16 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 time | punct |
| 19 | however | however | ADV | _ | 25 time | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 however | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 time | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 time | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ; | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 eat | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 eat | aux |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 eat | advmod |
| 29 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 time | acl:relcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 eat | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 give | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 give | advmod |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 give | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 give | aux |
| 35 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | conj |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 give | iobj |
| 37 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 bowlful | det |
| 38 | bowlful | bowlful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 give | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | a fine appetite and young man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=Patient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the witch | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | porridge | the last time | however property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | eat | future | you | porridge | ever | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 5 | give | future | I | another bowlful | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bowlful=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 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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