The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 125

'Idiot!' replied Michael, who was hungry too, and, like many people when they are hungry, very cross also. '

Who acts: Idiot, Michael, many people · What happens: reply, be

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Idiot, Michael, many people), 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	_	2 Idiot	punct
2	Idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Idiot	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Idiot	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hungry	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 hungry	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hungry	cop
10	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Michael	amod
11	too	too	ADV	_	10 hungry	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hungry	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hungry	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 people	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 people	case
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 people	amod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hungry	nsubj
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 hungry	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hungry	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hungry	cop
21	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 replied	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cross	punct
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 cross	advmod
24	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hungry	conj
25	also	also	ADV	_	24 cross	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Idiot		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Michael	hungry property	tree rules
3	is	present	many people	hungry property	tree rules
4	be		many people not said here		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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