The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 66

If I were not so hungry I would soon have done with this chatterpie who thinks she talks very little!

Who acts: I, chatterpie · What happens: not be, do, think, talk · To what, where: Plague, little

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, chatterpie), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 hungry	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hungry	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hungry	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hungry	advmod
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 talks	csubj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 done	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 done	advmod
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 done	aux
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 hungry	parataxis
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 chatterpie	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 chatterpie	det
14	chatterpie	chatterpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 done	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 thinks	nsubj
16	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 chatterpie	acl:relcl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thinks	obj
18	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 little	advmod
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 talks	obj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 talks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	I		hungry property	tree rules
2	do	would · perfect	I		with this chatterpie; soon property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	present	this chatterpie	Plague		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
4	talk	present		little		vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent little=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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