The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 104

'Seek food elsewhere, O bearer of ill-news,' answered Ardan son of Gorla; 'it is but little I have for myself.'

Who acts: you, food, I · What happens: seek, answer, be, have · To what, where: food, Ardan son

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, food, 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	_	2 Seek	punct
2	Seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Seek	obj
4	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	2 Seek	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bearer	punct
6	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	7 bearer	case
7	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Seek	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 news	case
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 news	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ill	punct
11	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bearer	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct
14	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Seek	parataxis
15	Ardan	Ardan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 son	compound
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 answered	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Gorla	case
18	Gorla	Gorla	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 son	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 little	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 little	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 little	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 little	cop
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 little	cc
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Seek	parataxis
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 little	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 myself	case
28	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 have	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Seek	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Seek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seek	imperative	you not said here	food		of bearer of ill news; elsewhere property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past			Ardan son of Gorla		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality
3	is	present	food			little property	tree rules
4	have	present	I			for myself	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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