The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 132
‘If only there were some people up there I might warm myself and get something to eat,’ thought Halvor.
Who acts: people, I · What happens: be, warm, get, eat, think · To what, where: myself, something, Halvor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, 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 | _ | 12 warm | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 were | mark |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 were | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 were | expl |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 warm | advcl |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | nsubj |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 there | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 were | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 warm | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 warm | aux |
| 12 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 warm | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 warm | conj |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 get | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 eat | mark |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 something | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 warm | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 warm | punct |
| 21 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 thought | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | some people | there; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | warm | might | I | myself | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | I not said here | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | I not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | Halvor | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent halvor=Attribute clause=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 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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