The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 60

I declare my stomach feels quite empty, and I must draw my belt tight if I’m not to die of starvation.’

Who acts: I, stomach · What happens: declare, feel, draw, not die · To what, where: belt · 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 (I, stomach), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 declare	nsubj
2	declare	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 stomach	nmod:poss
4	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feels	nsubj
5	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 declare	ccomp
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 empty	advmod
7	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feels	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 draw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 draw	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 draw	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 draw	aux
12	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 declare	conj
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 belt	nmod:poss
14	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 draw	obj
15	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 draw	xcomp
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 die	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 die	nsubj
18	’m	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 die	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 die	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 die	mark
21	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 draw	advcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 starvation	case
23	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 die	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 declare	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 declare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	present	I			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	feel	present	my stomach		empty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	draw	must	I	my belt	tight property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belt=Theme
4	not die a condition, not said to happen	present	I		of starvation	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of starvation=Causer

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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