The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 116
But, though Isuro knew better than to believe him, he said nothing, and went to bed hungrier than he had ever been in his life.
Who acts: Isuro, Gudu · What happens: know, believe, say, go, be · To what, where: Isuro, nothing, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Isuro, Gudu), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 knew | mark |
| 4 | Isuro | Isuro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 knew | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 believe | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 believe | mark |
| 9 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 better | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 believe | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 bed | case |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 20 | hungrier | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 went | xcomp |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 life | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 life | aux |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 life | advmod |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 life | cop |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hungrier | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Isuro | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | believe | to-infinitive | Isuro not said here | Isuro | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Gudu | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Gudu not said here | bed | hungry property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | Gudu | ever | than Gudu's life | 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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