The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 87

'I am dying of hunger,' answered the wolf, doggedly; 'and you know,' he added with a grin, 'that charity begins at home.'

Who acts: I, you, Wolf, charity · What happens: die, answer, know, add, begin · To what, where: wolf, home · 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, you, Wolf, charity), 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 dying	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dying	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dying	aux
4	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 answered	ccomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 hunger	case
6	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dying	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dying	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 dying	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolf	det
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 doggedly	punct
13	doggedly	doggedly	ADV	_	9 answered	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 know	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
18	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 added	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 added	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 added	nsubj
22	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 know	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 grin	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 grin	det
25	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 added	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 added	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 added	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 begins	mark
29	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 begins	nsubj
30	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 added	advcl
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 home	case
32	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 begins	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	present · progressive	I			of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer
2	answer speech: assert	past		the wolf		doggedly property	tree rules
3	know	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	add speech: assert	past	Wolf			with a grin	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with grin=Co-Patient
5	begin	present	charity		home		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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