The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 52

At first the old man ate quite greedily, and said nothing; but, after his hunger was satisfied, he turned to Jack and said:

Who acts: old man, hunger, man · What happens: eat, say, be, turn, hunger · To what, where: nothing, Jack · 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 (old man, hunger, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 ate	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	nsubj
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 greedily	advmod
8	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	6 ate	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ate	conj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 turned	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 turned	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 but	punct
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 satisfied	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hunger	nmod:poss
18	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 satisfied	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 satisfied	cop
20	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 turned	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 satisfied	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 turned	nsubj
23	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ate	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 Jack	case
25	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 turned	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 turned	conj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the old man			greedily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man not said here	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	is	past	man's hunger			satisfied property	tree rules
4	turn	past	man		Jack		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to jack=Result
5	say speech: assert	past	man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	hunger		man				nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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