The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 42
'I am too ugly even for a dog to eat,' said he to himself. '
Who acts: I, dog · What happens: be, eat, say · To what, where: dog · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dog), 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 ugly | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ugly | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ugly | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 ugly | advmod |
| 5 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 dog | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 dog | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ugly | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 eat | mark |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dog | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ugly | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ugly | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 himself | case |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | for a dog; ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | dog | dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=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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