The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 114
‘However, it is better than nothing, and I will bake him with bread crumbs and have him for supper.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, bake, have · To what, where: brother
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. 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 better | punct |
| 2 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 better | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 However | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 better | expl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 better | cop |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 nothing | case |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 better | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bake | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bake | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bake | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bake | aux |
| 13 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 better | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bake | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 crumbs | case |
| 16 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crumbs | compound |
| 17 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bake | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bake | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 supper | case |
| 22 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 better | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | than nothing; good, however property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bake | future | I | brother | with bread crumbs | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with crumb=Instrument | |||
| 3 | have | present | I not said here | brother | for supper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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