The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 43

He answered that he was so faint and giddy with hunger that he had imagined he saw and heard all sorts of strange things.

Who acts: noise · What happens: answer, be, imagine, see, hear, sort · To what, where: sorts, strange things

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 faint	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 faint	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 faint	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 faint	advmod
7	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 answered	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 giddy	cc
9	giddy	giddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 faint	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 hunger	case
11	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 giddy	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 imagined	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 imagined	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 imagined	aux
15	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 faint	advcl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 imagined	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heard	cc
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 saw	conj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 sorts	det
21	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 heard	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 things	case
23	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 things	amod
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sorts	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	noise			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	noise		faint property	tree rules
3	be		noise not said here		with hunger	tree rules
4	imagine	past · perfect	noise			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see	past	noise			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	hear	past	noise not said here	all sorts of strange things		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
7	sort			strange things		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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