The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 26

There is food to spare outside; I will attend to them first.’

Who acts: food, I · What happens: be, spare, attend · To what, where: beasts

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 spare	mark
5	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 food	acl
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 spare	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 attend	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 attend	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 attend	aux
10	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 is	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 attend	obl
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 attend	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	food		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spare	to-infinitive	food not said here			outside property	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent
3	attend	future	I	beasts = beast		first property	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to they=Theme

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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