The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 71
But as he was still very hungry and this juicy salad tasted very good to his present nature, he went on eating with a still greater appetite.
Who acts: Hunter, juicy salad · What happens: be, taste, go, eat
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, juicy 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 hungry | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hungry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hungry | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 hungry | advmod |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 hungry | advmod |
| 7 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 went | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tasted | cc |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 salad | det |
| 10 | juicy | juicy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 salad | amod |
| 11 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tasted | nsubj |
| 12 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hungry | conj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 good | advmod |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tasted | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 nature | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 nature | nmod:poss |
| 17 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 nature | amod |
| 18 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 good | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hungry | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 23 eating | mark |
| 23 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 went | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 appetite | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 appetite | det |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 greater | advmod |
| 27 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 appetite | amod |
| 28 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eating | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hunter | still | hungry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | taste | past | this juicy salad | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Hunter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | Hunter not said here | with a greater appetite | 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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