The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 91

'It does not taste at all nice,' he cried, screwing up his face; 'I would rather have one of the yellow ones.'

Who acts: skin, Rabbit, I · What happens: not taste, cry, screw up, have · To what, where: all, face, one

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 (skin, Rabbit, 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	_	5 taste	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taste	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 taste	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 taste	advmod
5	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 taste	obj
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 all	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taste	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 screwing	punct
14	screwing	screw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 cried	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 screwing	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 face	nmod:poss
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 screwing	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
22	rather	rather	ADV	_	23 have	advmod
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 taste	conj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 have	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 ones	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ones	det
27	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ones	amod
28	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 taste	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 taste	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not taste	present · do-support	skin	all	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme all=Attribute
2	cry speech: express	past	Rabbit		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	screw up	gerund	Rabbit not said here	Rabbit's face	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
4	have	would	I	one of the yellow ones	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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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