The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 20

“Ha!” said the wretch to himself, “this is good; Taram-taq has not eaten man-meat for a long time, and is craving for some.

Who acts: wretch, this · What happens: say, be, not eat, crave · To what, where: prince, Taram taq · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wretch, this), 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 said	punct
2	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ha	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wretch	det
7	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 good	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 good	punct
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 good	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 good	cop
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 eaten	punct
16	Taram	Taram	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 taq	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Taram	punct
18	taq	taq	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eaten	nsubj:pass
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 eaten	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 eaten	advmod
21	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 meat	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 man	punct
24	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eaten	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 time	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 time	det
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eaten	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 craving	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 craving	cc
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 craving	aux
32	craving	crave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 eaten	advcl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 some	case
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 craving	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wretch		prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	is in a quote	present	this				good property	tree rules
3	not eat in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Taram taq		time		tree rules
4	crave in a quote	present · progressive					for some	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for some=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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