The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 238
‘he said, ‘if there is no dinner I cannot dine, but take care that plenty of things are roasted for supper.’
Who acts: Frisk, I · What happens: say, be, not dine, take, roast · To what, where: dinner, care, plenty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frisk, I), 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 | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dinner | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 dinner | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 is | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dinner | cop |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 dinner | det |
| 10 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 dine | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 dine | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 dine | advmod |
| 14 | dine | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dinner | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 take | cc |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 18 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 roasted | obj |
| 20 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 roasted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 things | case |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 plenty | nmod |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 roasted | aux:pass |
| 24 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 take | advcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 supper | case |
| 26 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 roasted | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Frisk | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | no dinner | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not dine | can | I | no dinner not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 5 | roast | present · passive | plenty of things | for supper | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary that=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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