The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 95
‘I am bringing you the delicious food my own self,’ he said, ‘so that you need not wait any longer.’
Who acts: I, Hunter, you · What happens: bring, say, not wait · To what, where: you · 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 (I, Hunter, you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 bringing | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bringing | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bringing | aux |
| 4 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 bringing | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 food | det |
| 7 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 food | amod |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bringing | obj |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 self | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 self | amod |
| 11 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bringing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bringing | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 bringing | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ‘ | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ‘ | SYM | _ | 23 wait | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 wait | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 wait | nsubj |
| 21 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 wait | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 wait | advmod |
| 23 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 24 | any | any | ADV | _ | 25 longer | advmod |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 wait | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 wait | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · progressive | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hunter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not wait | present | you | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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