The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 20

He thought a long while after his mother had told him the young man’s story, and at last he said that he was hungry, and the cow must be killed, as he wanted some supper.

Who acts: son · What happens: think, tell, say, be, kill, want · To what, where: mother, son, last, cow, supper · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (son), 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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 while	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 while	amod
5	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obj
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 told	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	ccomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 story	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 man	case
16	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 hungry	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hungry	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hungry	cop
26	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 killed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 killed	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cow	det
30	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 killed	nsubj:pass
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 killed	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 killed	aux:pass
33	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 said	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wanted	punct
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 wanted	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 wanted	nsubj
37	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 killed	parataxis
38	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	39 supper	det
39	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wanted	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	son				while		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		son's mother	son				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	son			last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	past	son					hungry property	tree rules
5	kill	must · passive		the cow					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	want	past	son	some supper					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot supper=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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