The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 44

'Oh! yes, you are right,' he said to the jackal; 'but I never can eat till I have first drunk.

Who acts: you, hedgehog, I · What happens: be, say, not eat, have · To what, where: jackal, drunk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hedgehog, 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	_	8 right	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 right	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 right	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 right	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 right	cop
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 right	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 jackal	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 jackal	det
15	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 eat	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 eat	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 eat	advmod
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 eat	aux
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 right	conj
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 eat	advcl
26	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 drunk	advmod
27	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 have	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	you			right property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	hedgehog		the jackal		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to jackal=Recipient
3	not eat	can	I				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	present	I	drunk			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drunk=Patient

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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