The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 63

‘I am hungry, will you give me something to eat?’ asked the boy.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, give, eat, ask · To what, where: something, me, boy

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	_	4 hungry	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hungry	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 asked	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 give	nsubj
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hungry	parataxis
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 give	iobj
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 give	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 eat	mark
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 something	acl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boy	det
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			hungry property	tree rules
2	give	future	you	something	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	you not said here	something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past			the boy		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient

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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