The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 68
‘Bring more,’ he cried, ‘these crumbs don’t fill it.’
Who acts: you, King, crumbs · What happens: bring, cry, not fill · To what, where: more, sack
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (you, King, crumbs), 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 | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 Bring | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Bring | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fill | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 fill | punct |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 crumbs | det |
| 11 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fill | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fill | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 fill | advmod |
| 14 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fill | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | more | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent more=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | King | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not fill | present · do-support | this crumbs | sack | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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