The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 19

If you are hungry take this little table and rap on it, saying, as you do so: "The dinner of an emperor!" and you will get as much food as you want.'

Who acts: you · What happens: be, take, say, do, get, want · To what, where: little table, rap, dinner, much food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 hungry	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hungry	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 take	advcl
5	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 table	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 table	amod
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rap	cc
10	rap	rap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 table	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 take	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 do	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
18	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 get	advcl
19	so	so	ADV	_	18 do	advmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 dinner	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 dinner	punct
22	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dinner	det
23	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 emperor	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 emperor	det
26	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dinner	nmod
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 emperor	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 emperor	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 get	cc
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 get	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 get	aux
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 saying	ccomp
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 much	advmod
34	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 food	amod
35	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obj
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 want	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 want	nsubj
38	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 get	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			hungry property	tree rules
2	take	present		this little table and rap	rap		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent table=Theme on it=Destination
3	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	present	you	the dinner of a emperor			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	get	future	you	much food			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus
6	want	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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