The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 30

'That is a clever trick of yours,' said the old man, when he had eaten as much as he wanted. '

Who acts: That, clever trick, man · What happens: be, say, eat, want · To what, where: clever trick, much · 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 (That, clever trick, man), 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 trick	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 trick	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trick	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trick	det
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trick	amod
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 yours	case
8	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 trick	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 trick	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 trick	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eaten	punct
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 eaten	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 eaten	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 eaten	aux
19	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 eaten	obj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 wanted	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wanted	nsubj
24	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 much	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 eaten	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a clever trick	of yours	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a clever trick			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat	past · perfect	man	much		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
4	want	past	man			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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