The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 89
And the man replied, ‘With all my heart, as long as I get enough to eat and drink.’
Who acts: man, I · What happens: reply, get, eat, drink
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heart | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 heart | punct |
| 7 | With | with | ADP | _ | 10 heart | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 heart | det:predet |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 long | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 replied | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 long | advcl |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 get | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 enough | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drink | cc |
| 21 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 eat | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the man | with my heart; long property | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get | present | I | enough property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | I not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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