The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 22
'Why, I have given you your dinner, and what more do you want?' replied the second.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, want, reply · To what, where: dinner, you, second
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | _ | 6 given | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 given | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 given | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 replied | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 given | obj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 want | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 want | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 want | obj |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 what | amod |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 want | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 want | nsubj |
| 16 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 given | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 replied | punct |
| 19 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 second | det |
| 21 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 replied | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | I | your dinner | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient dinner=Theme | |||
| 2 | want | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the second | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent second=Topic |
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/pg3027/35/22/