The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 55
'I am nearly starved; I have not touched food since I came here.
Who acts: I · What happens: starve, not touch, come · To what, where: I, food
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 5 starved | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 starved | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 starved | aux:pass |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 starved | advmod |
| 5 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 touched | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 touched | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 touched | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 touched | advmod |
| 10 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 starved | conj |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 touched | obj |
| 12 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 touched | advcl |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 starved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve | present · passive | I | nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not touch | present · perfect | I | food | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | I | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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