The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 112
“Give me some food then,” said the lion, “it is past my supper time, and I am very hungry.”
Who acts: lion, food · What happens: give, say, be · To what, where: food, lion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, food), 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 food | det |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Give | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lion | det |
| 11 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 time | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 time | cop |
| 16 | past | past | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 time | nmod:poss |
| 18 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | compound |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lion | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hungry | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hungry | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 hungry | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 hungry | cop |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 hungry | advmod |
| 25 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 hungry | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | some food | the lion and my supper time = lion | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient food=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the lion and my supper time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | food | past my supper time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the lion and my supper time = lion | hungry property | tree rules |
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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