The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 107

‘The two others,’ he added, ‘are certainly not dead, and get their three meals every day, but they are so sad that they cannot last much longer.’

Who acts: Hunter, others · What happens: add, be, get, not last · To what, where: two others, three meals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter, others), 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	_	4 others	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 others	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 others	nummod
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 added	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 others	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 others	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 added	nsubj
8	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 are	punct
10	‘	‘	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 are	expl
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 added	ccomp
12	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	14 dead	advmod
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 dead	advmod
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 are	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 get	cc
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 added	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 meals	nmod:poss
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 meals	nummod
20	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 get	obj
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sad	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 sad	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sad	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 sad	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 sad	advmod
28	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 added	parataxis
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 last	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 last	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 last	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 last	advmod
33	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sad	advcl
34	much	much	ADV	_	35 longer	advmod
35	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 last	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 sad	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past	Hunter	the two others			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	present					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	infinitive	Hunter not said here	others's three meals	day		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus
4	is	present	others = other			sad property	tree rules
5	not last	can	others = other			long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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