The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 50

‘I am looking for a place,’ said Hans, ‘where they have need of strong fellows, and can give them plenty to eat.’

Who acts: I, Hans · What happens: look, say, have, give, eat, need · To what, where: need, plenty, Hans, strong fellows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Hans), 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	_	4 looking	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 looking	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looking	aux
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 have	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
17	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 fellows	case
19	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fellows	amod
20	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 need	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 give	cc
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 have	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 plenty	acl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	present · progressive	I			for a place	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for place=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Hans				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	Hans = han	need of strong fellows			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
4	give	can	Hans = han not said here	plenty	Hans = han		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient plenty=Theme
5	eat	to-infinitive	Hans = han not said here	plenty not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	need			strong fellows			nom need «state transitive»: of=patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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