The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 2

'You know,' said her brother, 'that when a Stalo finds that anything has been dropped into his food he will not eat a morsel, but throws it to his dogs.

Who acts: You, brother, Stalo · What happens: know, say, find, drop, not eat, throw · To what, where: anything, food, morsel, dogs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, brother, Stalo), 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	_	3 know	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brother	nmod:poss
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 throws	mark
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 finds	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Stalo	det
14	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 finds	nsubj
15	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 throws	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 dropped	mark
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 dropped	nsubj:pass
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dropped	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 dropped	aux:pass
20	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 finds	ccomp
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 food	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 food	nmod:poss
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dropped	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 eat	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 eat	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 eat	advmod
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 food	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 morsel	det
29	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eat	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 throws	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 throws	cc
32	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 throws	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 dogs	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 dogs	nmod:poss
36	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 throws	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	know	present	You				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	Lyman's brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	find	present	a Stalo				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	drop	present · perfect · passive		anything		Stalo's food	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into food=Destination
5	not eat	future	brother	a morsel			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient
6	throw	present	Lyman's brother not said here	morsel	Stalo's dogs		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to dog=Destination

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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