The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 74

When he awoke the next morning he broke off a head of the bad and a head of the good cabbage, thinking, ‘This will help me to regain my own, and to punish faithlessness.’

Who acts: Hunter, This, me · What happens: awake, break off, think, help, regain, punish · To what, where: head, me, own, faithlessness

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, This, me), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 awoke	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 awoke	nsubj
3	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 broke	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 morning	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 morning	amod
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 awoke	obl:unmarked
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 broke	nsubj
8	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 broke	compound:prt
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 head	det
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 broke	obl:unmarked
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 bad	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bad	det
14	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 head	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 head	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 head	det
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 head	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 cabbage	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cabbage	det
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cabbage	amod
21	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 head	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thinking	punct
23	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 broke	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 help	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 help	punct
26	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 help	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 help	aux
28	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 thinking	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 help	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 regain	mark
31	regain	regain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 help	xcomp
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 own	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 regain	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 punish	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 punish	cc
36	to	to	PART	_	37 punish	mark
37	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 broke	parataxis
38	faithlessness	faithlessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 punish	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 punish	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	37 punish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	awake	past	Hunter		morning	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	break off	past	Hunter	a head and a head of the good cabbage		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	think speech: other	gerund	Hunter not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	help	future	This	me		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	regain	to-infinitive	me not said here	my own		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Theme
6	punish	to-infinitive		faithlessness		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faithlessness=Patient

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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