The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 73
He felt hungry again, and, having still some provisions left, thought he had better make ready his supper.
Who acts: youth, having · What happens: feel, have, leave, think, make · To what, where: provisions, supper · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (youth, having), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 felt | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 and | punct |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 thought | csubj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 having | advmod |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 provisions | det |
| 11 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 having | obj |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 provisions | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 having | punct |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 make | csubj |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 had | xcomp |
| 19 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 make | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 supper | nmod:poss |
| 21 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | youth | again | hungry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | some provisions | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | some provisions not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | having | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | past | youth | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | make | infinitive | youth not said here | youth's supper | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset supper=Product |
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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