The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 46

Oh, what a good supper Jack had that night, quite forgetting that he owed it to a mean trick.

Who acts: good supper, Jack · What happens: have, forget, owe · To what, where: supper, mean trick

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 (good supper, Jack), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 had	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 supper	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 supper	amod
6	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 supper	appos
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forgetting	punct
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 forgetting	advmod
13	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 had	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 owed	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 owed	nsubj
16	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forgetting	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 owed	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 trick	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 trick	det
20	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 trick	amod
21	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 owed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	a good supper		night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	forget	gerund	a good supper not said here				tree rules
3	owe	past	Jack	supper		to a mean trick goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to trick=Goal

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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