The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 10

'Now,' said the cunning creature to himself, 'I shall be able in the dark to steal his meat!'

Who acts: I · What happens: say, be, steal · To what, where: cunning creature, Gudu, dark, meat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 creature	det
7	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 creature	amod
8	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 able	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 able	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 able	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 able	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 able	cop
16	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 dark	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dark	det
19	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 able	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 steal	mark
21	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 able	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 meat	nmod:poss
23	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 steal	obj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the cunning creature	Gudu		now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent creature=Topic to himself=Recipient
2	is	shall	I			the dark		able property	tree rules
3	steal	to-infinitive	I not said here	Gudu's meat					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meat=Theme

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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