The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 61
Now the buffalo had always lived an honest life, but if his mistress did not feed him, he must get food for himself.
Who acts: buffalo, mistress · What happens: live, not feed, get · To what, where: honest life, buffalo, 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 (buffalo, mistress), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 buffalo | det |
| 3 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | aux |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 life | det |
| 8 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 life | amod |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 get | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 feed | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feed | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 feed | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 feed | advmod |
| 17 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 get | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 feed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feed | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lived | conj |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 himself | case |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 get | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · perfect | the buffalo | a honest life | now | always property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | ||
| 2 | not feed a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | buffalo's mistress | buffalo | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | get | must | mistress | food | for mistress | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme for himself=Source |
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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