The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 77

The farmer’s wife, however, would touch nothing, and at last declared that the only supper she wanted was one of the onions the poor man was cooking at the fire.

Who acts: wife, only supper, poor man · What happens: touch, declare, want, be, cook · To what, where: nothing, last, only supper, one, onions, fire

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, only supper, poor man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 farmer	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touch	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	9 touch	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 touch	aux
9	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 touch	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 declared	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 declared	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 declared	obl
15	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 touch	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 one	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 supper	det
18	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 supper	amod
19	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 one	nsubj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wanted	nsubj
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 supper	acl:relcl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	cop
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 declared	xcomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 onions	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 onions	det
26	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 one	nmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cooking	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cooking	aux
31	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 onions	acl:relcl
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 fire	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fire	det
34	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cooking	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 touch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	touch	would	the farmer's wife	nothing		however property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nothing=Co-Theme
2	declare speech: other	past	the farmer's wife not said here		last		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	want	past	wife	the only supper not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot supper=Theme
4	is a	past	the only supper	one		of the onions	tree rules
5	cook	past · progressive	the poor man	the onions not said here	the fire		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent onion=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 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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