The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 50

'I positively must get a good meal before I go back to my den,' he said to himself; 'it is nearly a week since I have tasted anything but scraps, though perhaps no one would think it to look at my figure!

Who acts: I, Wolf, meal, one, my · What happens: get, go back, say, be, taste, think · To what, where: good meal, Wolf, week, anything, meal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Wolf, meal, one), 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 get	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
3	positively	positively	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 meal	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meal	amod
8	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 go	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 get	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 den	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 den	nmod:poss
15	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 himself	case
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 said	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 week	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 week	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 week	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 week	cop
26	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	28 week	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 week	det
28	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl:unmarked
29	since	since	SCONJ	_	32 tasted	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 tasted	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 tasted	aux
32	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 week	acl:relcl
33	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 tasted	obj
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 scraps	cc
35	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 anything	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 think	punct
37	though	though	SCONJ	_	42 think	mark
38	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	42 think	advmod
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 one	det
40	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 think	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 think	aux
42	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 tasted	conj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 think	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 look	mark
45	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 think	ccomp
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 figure	case
47	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 figure	nmod:poss
48	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 look	obl
49	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get	must	I	a good meal		positively property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus
2	go back	present	I			to my den result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to den=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	Wolf		Wolf		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	is a	present	meal	a week		nearly property	tree rules
5	taste	present · perfect	I	anything			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme anything=Attribute
6	think speech: other	would	no one	meal		perhaps property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
7	look	to-infinitive				at my figure	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at figure=Theme
8	figure		my				nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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