The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 45

However, he only cut himself against the rock, and thought he had better stick to threats, so he started again with his old cry, ‘Mother dove, mother dove! be quick and give me one of your little ones, or I will eat you all up.’

Who acts: heart, I · What happens: cut, think, have, start, be, give · To what, where: heart, better stick, one, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 cut	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cut	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 cut	advmod
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 cut	obj
7	against	against	ADP	_	9 rock	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rock	det
9	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	ccomp
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 stick	amod
16	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 threats	case
18	threats	threat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stick	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 started	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 started	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 started	nsubj
22	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	conj
23	again	again	ADV	_	22 started	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 cry	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 cry	nmod:poss
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cry	amod
27	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 started	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dove	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 dove	punct
30	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dove	compound
31	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cry	appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dove	punct
33	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dove	compound
34	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dove	appos
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 quick	punct
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 quick	cop
37	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cut	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 give	cc
39	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 quick	conj
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 give	iobj
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 give	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 ones	case
43	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 ones	nmod:poss
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 ones	amod
45	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 one	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 eat	punct
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	50 eat	cc
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 eat	nsubj
49	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 eat	aux
50	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cut	parataxis
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 eat	obj
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 you	nmod:unmarked
53	up	up	ADP	_	50 eat	compound:prt
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	heart	heart			against the rock; however property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product
2	think speech: other	past	heart not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	past	heart	better stick			to threats	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient
4	start	past	heart			again	with heart's old cry	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with cry=Subeventuality
5	is	infinitive					quick property	tree rules
6	give	infinitive		one of your little ones	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme
7	eat up	future	I	you				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
8	cry		heart					nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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