The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 75

When he had eaten and drunk as much as he could he thought to himself, ‘Why shouldn’t I put a loaf of bread in my pocket?

Who acts: youth, I · What happens: eat, drink, think, not put · To what, where: youth, loaf, pocket

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (youth, I), 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	SCONJ	_	4 eaten	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drunk	cc
6	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 eaten	conj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drunk	conj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 thought	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 much	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 thought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
18	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 put	advmod
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 put	aux
20	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 put	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 put	nsubj
22	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 loaf	det
24	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 bread	case
26	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 loaf	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 pocket	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 pocket	nmod:poss
29	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	youth				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	participle	youth not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	could	youth		youth		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not put	should	I	a loaf of bread		my pocket	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme in pocket=Destination

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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