The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 68
At last he thought, ‘At a pinch I can eat a salad; it does not taste particularly nice, but it will refresh me.’
Who acts: Hunter, I, salad · What happens: think, eat, not taste, refresh · To what, where: last, salad, pinch, me · 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, salad), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eat | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 eat | punct |
| 7 | At | at | ADP | _ | 9 pinch | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pinch | det |
| 9 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eat | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 eat | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 eat | aux |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 salad | det |
| 14 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eat | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 taste | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 taste | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 taste | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 taste | advmod |
| 19 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 21 nice | advmod |
| 21 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 taste | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 refresh | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 refresh | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 refresh | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 refresh | aux |
| 26 | refresh | refresh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 taste | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 refresh | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 taste | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 taste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Hunter | last | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | can | I | a salad | a pinch | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salad=Patient | |||
| 3 | not taste | present · do-support | salad | nice property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | refresh | future | salad | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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