The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 56

'I can feed birds and tend pigs; I can feed and milk a cow, and also goats and sheep, if you have any of these,' replied Ian Direach.

Who acts: I, you, Ian · What happens: feed, tend, have, reply · To what, where: birds, pigs, cow, any · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. 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, Ian), 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 feed	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 feed	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feed	aux
4	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 replied	ccomp
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tend	cc
7	tend	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feed	conj
8	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tend	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 feed	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 feed	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 feed	aux
12	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 feed	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 milk	cc
14	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feed	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cow	det
16	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 goats	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 goats	cc
19	also	also	ADV	_	20 goats	advmod
20	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 feed	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sheep	cc
22	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 goats	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 have	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 feed	conj
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 have	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 these	case
29	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 any	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 feed	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 feed	punct
32	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 replied	nsubj
34	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Ian	flat
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feed	can	I		birds		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient
2	tend	present	I not said here	pigs			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme
3	feed	can	I		a cow	goats and sheep obl	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Recipient
4	have a condition, not said to happen	present	you	any			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient
5	reply speech: assert	past	Ian				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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