The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 16

'I am hungry and want something to eat better than that nasty porridge that I had for supper.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, want, eat, have · To what, where: something, nasty porridge

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	_	4 hungry	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hungry	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 want	cc
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	conj
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 want	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 something	acl
10	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 eat	advmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 porridge	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 porridge	det
13	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 porridge	amod
14	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 better	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 had	obj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 porridge	acl:relcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 supper	case
19	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		hungry property	tree rules
2	want	present	I not said here	something		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	I not said here	something not said here	well property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	I	that nasty porridge	for supper	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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