The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 134

“I am very hungry, but I shall not die of starvation before I get my dinner; if I give my breakfast to this poor creature perhaps I may save her life.”

Who acts: Darling · What happens: be, not die, get, give, save · To what, where: dinner, breakfast, poor creature, life

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling), 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	very	very	ADV	_	5 hungry	advmod
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 die	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 die	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 die	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 die	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 die	advmod
11	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hungry	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 starvation	case
13	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 die	obl
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 get	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 get	nsubj
16	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 die	advcl
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 dinner	nmod:poss
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 give	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
22	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	conj
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 breakfast	nmod:poss
24	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 creature	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 creature	det
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 creature	amod
28	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obl
29	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	32 save	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 save	nsubj
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 save	aux
32	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 give	advcl
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 life	nmod:poss
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 save	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hungry	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Darling			hungry property	tree rules
2	not die in a quote	shall	Darling			of starvation	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of starvation=Causer
3	get in a quote	present	Darling	my dinner			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=Stimulus
4	give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Darling	my breakfast	this poor creature		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent breakfast=Theme to creature=Recipient
5	save in a quote	may	Darling	creature's life		perhaps property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

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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