The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 66

Saphir, who was raging with thirst, was just about to shake it off anew, when the little creature fixed upon him the most beautiful eyes in the world, and said, ‘I am a friend of the bird you are seeking, and when you have quenched your thirst listen to me.’

Who acts: Saphir, I, you, your · What happens: rage, be, fix, say, seek, quench · To what, where: little creature, friend, bird, thirst, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saphir, I, you, your), 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	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 shake	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 raging	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 raging	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 raging	aux
5	raging	rage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Saphir	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 thirst	case
7	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raging	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Saphir	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shake	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 about	advmod
11	about	about	ADV	_	13 shake	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 shake	mark
13	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shake	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	13 shake	compound:prt
16	anew	anew	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shake	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fixed	punct
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 fixed	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 creature	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 creature	amod
21	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fixed	nsubj:pass
22	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 shake	advcl
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fixed	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 eyes	det
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 beautiful	advmod
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 eyes	amod
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fixed	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eyes	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shake	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 friend	punct
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 friend	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 friend	nsubj
38	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 friend	cop
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 friend	det
40	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 said	ccomp
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 bird	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 bird	det
43	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 friend	nmod
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 seeking	nsubj
45	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 seeking	aux
46	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 bird	acl:relcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 quenched	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 quenched	cc
49	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	52 quenched	advmod
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 quenched	nsubj
51	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 quenched	aux
52	quenched	quench	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 said	conj
53	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 thirst	nmod:poss
54	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 quenched	obj
55	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 quenched	xcomp
56	to	to	ADP	_	57 me	case
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 listen	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 shake	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 shake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	rage	past · progressive	Saphir			with thirst	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with thirst=Theme
2	is	past				Saphir vocative; about, anew, shake property	tree rules
3	fix	participle · passive		the little creature		upon Saphir	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary eye=Product
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	I	a friend		of the bird	tree rules
6	seek	present · progressive	you	the bird not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
7	quench	present · perfect	you	your thirst			tree rules
8	listen	infinitive	you not said here		me		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
9	thirst		your				nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=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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