The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 3
You are very merry and contented, but I suffer hunger and thirst, so give me a trifle.’
Who acts: You, I · What happens: be, content, suffer, give · To what, where: hunger, trifle, me
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 (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 merry | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 merry | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 merry | advmod |
| 4 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 contented | cc |
| 6 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 merry | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 suffer | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 suffer | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 suffer | nsubj |
| 10 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 merry | conj |
| 11 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suffer | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thirst | cc |
| 13 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hunger | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 give | advmod |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 merry | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 trifle | det |
| 19 | trifle | trifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 merry | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 merry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | merry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | content | participle | You not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | suffer | present | I | hunger and thirst | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunger=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give | infinitive | a trifle | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient trifle=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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