The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 24
He has wanted to eat man-meat this long time back.”
Who acts: prince · What happens: want, eat · To what, where: man meat
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 (prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wanted | aux |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 eat | mark |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meat | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 time | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 time | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present · perfect | prince | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince not said here | man meat | time | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
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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