The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 22

And sure enough at that instant the Bad One called out to his servant, “You did not bring food that would satisfy a sparrow Fetch some more at once, for I am perfectly starving.”

Who acts: servant, food, I · What happens: call out, not bring, satisfy, fetch, starve · To what, where: Bad One, servant, food, sparrow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, food, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 sure	cc
2	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 sure	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 instant	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 instant	det
6	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sure	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 One	det
8	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 One	amod
9	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 instant	appos
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 One	acl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 called	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 servant	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 servant	nmod:poss
14	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
17	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 bring	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bring	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 bring	advmod
20	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sure	parataxis
21	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bring	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 satisfy	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 satisfy	aux
24	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 food	acl:relcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sparrow	det
26	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 satisfy	obj
27	Fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 satisfy	xcomp
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 more	det
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 Fetch	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 once	case
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 Fetch	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 starving	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 starving	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 starving	nsubj
35	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 starving	aux
36	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	37 starving	advmod
37	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 bring	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sure	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	participle		the Bad One not said here	sight's servant		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient
2	not bring in a quote	past · do-support	sight's servant = servant	food			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	satisfy in a quote	would	food	a sparrow			tree rules
4	fetch in a quote	infinitive	food not said here				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at once=Asset
5	starve in a quote	present · progressive	I			perfectly 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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