The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 192

‘Anyhow, I’ll eat this lion cub,’ says he; ‘I’m so hungry I feel quite unwell!’

Who acts: I · What happens: eat, say, be, feel · To what, where: lion cub, Ivan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	6 eat	punct
2	Anyhow	anyhow	INTJ	_	6 eat	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Anyhow	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 eat	nsubj
5	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 cub	det
8	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cub	compound
9	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 says	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 ’m	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 ’m	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 ’m	nsubj
17	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 feel	advcl
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 hungry	advmod
19	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ’m	xcomp
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 feel	nsubj
21	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	parataxis
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 unwell	advmod
23	unwell	unwell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 feel	xcomp
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	future	I	this lion cub		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	I not said here	Ivan		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	be	present	I		hungry property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	feel	present	I		unwell property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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