The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 15
Besides, I am hungry, and if I don't have my dinner soon, I shall be cross.'
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not have · To what, where: dinner
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 5 hungry | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hungry | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | cop |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cross | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cross | cc |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 have | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 cross | advcl |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 have | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 cross | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 cross | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 cross | cop |
| 20 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hungry | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hungry | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not have a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | I | my dinner | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | shall | I | cross property | tree rules |
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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