The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 83

The next morning the lad felt hungry, and thought he would cut off a piece of the loaf he had carried away from the Giants’ wedding feast, and eat it.

Who acts: lad · What happens: feel, think, cut off, carry away, eat · To what, where: piece, wedding feast · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lad), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lad	det
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	nsubj
6	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 felt	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 felt	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cut	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cut	aux
13	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thought	ccomp
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 cut	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 piece	det
16	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 loaf	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 loaf	det
19	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 piece	nmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carried	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 carried	aux
22	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 cut	parataxis
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 carried	advmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	29 feast	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Giants	det
26	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 feast	nmod:poss
27	’	's	PART	_	26 Giants	case
28	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 feast	compound
29	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carried	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eat	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 eat	cc
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cut	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 eat	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the lad			morning	hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past	the lad not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	cut off	would	lad	a piece of the loaf				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector piece=Eventuality
4	carry away	past · perfect	lad		the Giants's wedding feast		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from feast=Initial_Location
5	eat	infinitive	lad not said here	piece				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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