The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 26

“Well, then, I think, if I had that—redbreast, nicely roasted, I could eat a little bit of his wing!”

Who acts: girl · What happens: think, have, roast, eat · To what, where: that, redbreast, little bit

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	_	7 think	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 think	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 think	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 think	ccomp
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 had	obj
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 redbreast	punct
14	redbreast	redbreast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 roasted	punct
16	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	17 roasted	advmod
17	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 redbreast	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eat	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 eat	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 eat	aux
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 roasted	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bit	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bit	amod
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eat	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 wing	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wing	nmod:poss
27	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bit	nmod
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 eat	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 redbreast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present	the girl = girl		then		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the girl = girl	that			tree rules
3	roast in a quote	participle		redbreast not said here		nicely property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	eat in a quote	could	the girl = girl	a little bit of husband's wing			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=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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