The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 59

As sure as there is a sun in heaven I will have some of them this night, for I have grown so thin that my very bones rattle, and my poor babies are crying for food.'

Who acts: sun, I, bones, poor babies · What happens: be, grow, rattle, cry

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 (sun, I, bones, poor babies), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 sure	advmod
2	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 have	advcl
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 is	mark
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 have	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 heaven	case
9	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sun	nmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 night	det
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 some	nmod
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grown	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 grown	case
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 grown	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 grown	aux
22	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 have	parataxis
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 thin	advmod
24	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grown	xcomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 rattle	mark
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bones	nmod:poss
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 bones	advmod
28	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 rattle	nsubj
29	rattle	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 thin	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 crying	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 crying	cc
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 babies	nmod:poss
33	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 babies	amod
34	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 crying	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 crying	aux
36	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 grown	advcl
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 food	case
38	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 crying	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a sun in heaven	night	have property	tree rules
2	grow	present · perfect	I		thin property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rattle	present	my bones			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	present · progressive	my poor babies		for food	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for food=Recipient

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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