The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 7

'I think you told me you were fond of porridge,' said Gudu; but Isuro answered: 'You are mistaking me for somebody else, as I always eat meat when I can get it.'

Who acts: I, you, Gudu, Isuro · What happens: think, tell, be, say, answer, mistake · To what, where: me, meat, porridge · 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, you, Gudu, Isuro), 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 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 fond	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fond	cop
9	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 porridge	case
11	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fond	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 answered	cc
18	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 answered	nsubj
19	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 mistaking	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 mistaking	punct
22	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 mistaking	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 mistaking	aux
24	mistaking	mistake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 answered	ccomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 mistaking	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 somebody	case
27	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 mistaking	obl
28	else	else	ADV	_	27 somebody	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 eat	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 eat	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 eat	nsubj
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 eat	advmod
33	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 answered	parataxis
34	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eat	obj
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 get	advmod
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 get	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 get	aux
38	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 eat	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 get	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	you		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	is	past	you			of porridge; fond property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Gudu				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	answer speech: assert	past	Isuro				tree rules
6	mistake	present · progressive	You	me		for somebody	tree rules
7	eat	present	I	meat		always property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
8	get	can	I	porridge			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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