The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 86

“But you have so much meat already,” replied his wife, “you have no occasion; here are a calf, two sheep, and half a hog.”

Who acts: you, wife · What happens: have, reply, be · To what, where: much meat, occasion, calf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wife), 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	_	11 replied	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 have	cc
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 replied	conj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meat	amod
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	already	already	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 replied	conj
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 occasion	det
19	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 calf	punct
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 calf	advmod
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 calf	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 calf	det
24	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sheep	punct
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 sheep	nummod
27	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 calf	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hog	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hog	cc
30	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	32 hog	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hog	det
32	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 calf	appos
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 hog	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 hog	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	you	much meat		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
2	reply speech: assert	past	ogre's wife			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	you	no occasion		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Patient
4	is a in a quote	present		a calf and two sheep	here	tree rules

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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