The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 89
As for the Ogre, he sat down again to drink, being highly pleased that he had got wherewithal to treat his friends.
Who acts: ogre · What happens: sit down, drink, be, get, treat · To what, where: wherewithal, friends
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 (ogre), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 Ogre | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ogre | det |
| 4 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ogre | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 sat | compound:prt |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 sat | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 drink | mark |
| 11 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sat | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleased | punct |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 pleased | cop |
| 14 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 15 pleased | advmod |
| 15 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sat | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 got | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | aux |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 pleased | advcl |
| 20 | wherewithal | wherewithal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 treat | mark |
| 22 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 got | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 friends | nmod:poss |
| 24 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 treat | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | ogre | again | as the Ogre | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | ogre not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | highly, pleased property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get | past · perfect | ogre | wherewithal | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wherewithal=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | treat | to-infinitive | ogre not said here | ogre's friends | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=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 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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