The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 6
The young man, thinking he might hae to travel a far way, and not knowing when or how he might get other provisions, said he would like to hae the hale cake, com of his mother’s malison what like; so she gave him the hale cake, and her malison alang wi’t.
Who acts: young man, man, part · What happens: think, hae, travel, not know, get, say · To what, where: far way, other provisions, hale cake, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man, part), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thinking | punct |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 man | acl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hae | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hae | aux |
| 8 | hae | hae | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thinking | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 travel | mark |
| 10 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hae | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 12 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travel | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knowing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knowing | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 knowing | advmod |
| 17 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 thinking | advcl |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 get | advmod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 get | cc |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 get | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 get | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | aux |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 knowing | ccomp |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 provisions | amod |
| 25 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 get | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 like | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 like | aux |
| 30 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 said | ccomp |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 hae | mark |
| 32 | hae | hae | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 like | xcomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 cake | det |
| 34 | hale | hale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 cake | amod |
| 35 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hae | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 com | punct |
| 37 | com | com | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cake | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 malison | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 mother | nmod:poss |
| 40 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 malison | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 40 mother | case |
| 42 | malison | malison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 com | nmod |
| 43 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 42 malison | acl:relcl |
| 44 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 43 what | discourse |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 gave | punct |
| 46 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 gave | advmod |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 gave | nsubj |
| 48 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | conj |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 gave | iobj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 cake | det |
| 51 | hale | hale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 cake | amod |
| 52 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 gave | obj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 wi’t | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 wi’t | cc |
| 55 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 wi’t | nmod:poss |
| 56 | malison | malison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 alang | compound |
| 57 | alang | alang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 wi’t | compound |
| 58 | wi’t | wi't | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 gave | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | the young man not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hae | might | man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | travel | to-infinitive | man not said here | a far way | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not know | gerund | the young man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | get | might | man | other provisions | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer provision=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | the young man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | like | would | man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | hae not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | the hale cake and com of man's mother's malison | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | give | past | part | the hale cake | man | part's alang wi’t obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cake=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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