The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 99
Very soon all the food in the house was eaten, and he knew he would have to go out and hunt for more.
Who acts: rest · What happens: eat, know, have, go out, hunt · To what, where: food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 eaten | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 food | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 food | det |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 food | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 eaten | aux:pass |
| 10 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 eaten | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 have | xcomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hunt | cc |
| 22 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 more | case |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 hunt | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · passive | all food in the house | soon property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | past | rest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have | would | rest | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go out | to-infinitive | rest not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hunt | present | rest not said here | for more | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for more=Theme |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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