The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 76

‘I am so hungry I must have a little breakfast, and then I will go and look for my heart,’ and he went further and further into the branches so that the shark could not see him.

Who acts: I, heart, shark · What happens: be, have, go, look, not see · To what, where: little breakfast, heart

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, heart, shark), 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	_	5 hungry	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hungry	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 hungry	advmod
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hungry	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 breakfast	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 breakfast	amod
11	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 go	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 go	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hungry	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 look	cc
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 heart	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 heart	nmod:poss
22	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 look	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hungry	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 hungry	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	conj
28	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 went	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 further	cc
30	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 further	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 branches	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 branches	det
33	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 further	obl
34	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	40 see	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 shark	det
37	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 see	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 see	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 see	advmod
40	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 went	advcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 see	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			hungry property	tree rules
2	have	must	I	a little breakfast			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient
3	go	future	I		then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	infinitive	I not said here			for my heart	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for heart=Theme
5	go	past	heart			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not see	could	the shark	heart			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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