The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 125

The pie only served to sharpen his appetite, and I heard him sharpening his knife and saying he must have a collop or two, for he was not near satisfied.

Who acts: pie, I, giant · What happens: serve, sharpen, hear, say, have, not be · To what, where: appetite, giant, knife, collop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pie, I, giant), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pie	det
2	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 served	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 served	advmod
4	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sharpen	mark
6	sharpen	sharpen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 served	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 appetite	nmod:poss
8	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sharpen	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 heard	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 served	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	obj
14	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 heard	xcomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 knife	nmod:poss
16	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sharpening	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saying	cc
18	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 sharpening	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 saying	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 collop	det
23	collop	collop	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 two	cc
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 collop	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 satisfied	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 satisfied	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 satisfied	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 satisfied	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 satisfied	advmod
31	near	near	ADV	_	32 satisfied	advmod
32	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 have	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 served	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	serve	past	the pie			tree rules
2	sharpen	to-infinitive	the pie not said here	giant's appetite		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent appetite=Patient
3	hear	past	I	giant		tree rules
4	sharpen	gerund	giant not said here	giant's knife		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
5	say speech: assert	gerund	giant not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	must	giant	a collop		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collop=Patient
7	not is	past	giant		near, satisfied 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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