The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 97

'I will have the large cake,' answered the youth; 'for what good would my mother's blessing do for me if I was dying of hunger?'

Who acts: I, good blessing, mother · What happens: have, answer, do, die, bless · To what, where: large cake, youth

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 (I, good blessing, mother), 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	_	4 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cake	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cake	amod
7	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 youth	det
12	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 '	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 what	case
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 '	obl
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 blessing	amod
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 blessing	aux
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blessing	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 mother	case
22	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 do	nsubj
23	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 do	obl
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 dying	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 dying	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 dying	aux
29	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 do	advcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 hunger	case
31	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dying	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	future	I	the large cake		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
2	answer speech: assert	past		the youth		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality
3	do	present	my mother's good blessing		for me	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	die a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	I		of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer
5	bless		my mother			nom blessing «act transitive»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/97/