The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 66

The Hunter then looked about him, saying, ‘If only I had something to eat!

Who acts: Hunter, I · What happens: look, say, have, eat · To what, where: something · 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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hunter	det
2	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 looked	advmod
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 looked	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	If	if	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 had	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saying	ccomp
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 had	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 something	acl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the Hunter		then	about man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the Hunter not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	I	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
4	eat	to-infinitive	I not said here	something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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