The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 89

Next morning the troll said to him, ‘To-day the animals are not to be fed; they don’t get the like of that every day.

Who acts: troll, animals · What happens: say, not feed, not get · To what, where: boy, animals, the · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll, animals), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 troll	det
4	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fed	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 fed	punct
10	To	to	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 To	punct
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fed	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 animals	det
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fed	nsubj:pass
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fed	aux:pass
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 fed	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	19 fed	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 fed	aux:pass
19	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 get	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 get	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 get	aux
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 get	advmod
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 get	obj
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 that	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 like	fixed
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 get	obl
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the troll		boy	morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	not feed	present · passive		the animals		day		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
3	not get	present · do-support	animals = animal	the		day	like that	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer the=Stimulus

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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