The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 90

'So I am to have that lean creature, which is nothing but horns, am I?' cried the lion in a rage. '

Who acts: I, lean creature · What happens: have, be, cry · To what, where: lean creature, nothing, lion, rage

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 (I, lean creature), 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	_	6 have	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cried	ccomp
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 creature	det
8	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 creature	amod
9	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nothing	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 nothing	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 nothing	cop
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 creature	appos
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 horns	cc
15	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 nothing	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 am	punct
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	advcl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 am	nsubj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lion	det
23	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cried	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 rage	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rage	det
26	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cried	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	I	that lean creature		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient
2	is a	present	that lean creature	nothing		tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past		the lion	a rage	tree rules

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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