The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 21

'It will not be fit to eat for two hours at least,' said Gudu, 'so we can both have a nap.'

Who acts: It, Gudu, we · What happens: not be, eat, say, have · To what, where: least, nap · 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 (It, Gudu, we), 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 fit	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fit	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fit	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fit	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 fit	cop
6	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fit	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 hours	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hours	nummod
11	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 least	case
13	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 eat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fit	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 fit	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Gudu	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Gudu	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	_	24 have	mark
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
23	both	both	ADV	_	24 have	advmod
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 nap	det
26	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	future	It				fit property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive			least	hour		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Gudu					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	can	we	a nap			both property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=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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