The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 59
Said he: ‘I’ve eaten up a whole oven full of loaves, but what’s the good of that to anyone who is as hungry as I am?
Who acts: Dullhead, I · What happens: say, have, eat up, be · To what, where: anyone, whole oven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullhead, 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 ’ve | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 ’ve | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ’ve | nsubj |
| 6 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Said | parataxis |
| 7 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ’ve | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 eaten | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 oven | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 oven | amod |
| 11 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eaten | obj |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 oven | amod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 loaves | case |
| 14 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 full | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 good | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 good | obl |
| 18 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 good | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 good | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Said | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 that | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 good | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 anyone | case |
| 24 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Said | obl |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 hungry | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 hungry | cop |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 hungry | advmod |
| 28 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 I | case |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 hungry | obl |
| 31 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 hungry | cop |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dullhead | anyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to anyone=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | eat up | participle | I not said here | a whole oven | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oven=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Dullhead not said here | of that; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | as I; hungry property | tree rules |
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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