The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 39
‘My son,’ replied the old man, ‘all this country round here is uninhabited; I myself have to wander to distant villages for my living, and even then I do not very often find enough to satisfy my hunger.
Who acts: son, I, my · What happens: reply, be, have, wander, not find, satisfy · To what, where: old man, distant villages, enough, hunger
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (son, I, my), 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 | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 country | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 country | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 country | det:predet |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obl |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 here | advmod |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 uninhabited | advmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 uninhabited | cop |
| 18 | uninhabited | uninhabited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 country | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 20 I | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 wander | mark |
| 24 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 have | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 villages | case |
| 26 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 villages | amod |
| 27 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wander | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 living | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 living | nmod:poss |
| 30 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wander | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 find | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 find | cc |
| 33 | even | even | ADV | _ | 34 then | advmod |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 find | advmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 find | nsubj |
| 36 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 find | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 find | advmod |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 often | advmod |
| 39 | often | often | ADV | _ | 40 find | advmod |
| 40 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | conj |
| 41 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 find | obj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 satisfy | mark |
| 43 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 enough | advcl |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 45 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 satisfy | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | My son | the old man | all country obl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | present | here | uninhabited property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wander | to-infinitive | I not said here | distant villages | for my living | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination | |||
| 5 | not find | present · do-support | I | enough | then | often property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Topic | ||
| 6 | satisfy | to-infinitive | I not said here | my hunger | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | live | my | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | hunger | my | nom hunger «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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