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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

punctnmod:possnsubjpunctpunctdetamodobjpunctpunctdet:predetdetobladvmodadvmodcopnmodpunctnsubjobl:unmarkedparataxismarkxcompcaseamodoblcasenmod:possoblpunctccadvmodadvmodnsubjauxadvmodadvmodadvmodconjobjmarkadvclnmod:possobjpunctroot‘PUNCTMyPRONsonNOUN,PUNCT’PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDEToldADJmanNOUN,PUNCT‘PUNCTallDETthisDETcountryNOUNroundADVhereADVisAUXuninhabitedADJ;PUNCTIPRONmyselfPRONhaveVERBtoPARTwanderVERBtoADPdistantADJvillagesNOUNforADPmyPRONlivingNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJevenADVthenADVIPRONdoAUXnotPARTveryADVoftenADVfindVERBenoughADJtoPARTsatisfyVERBmyPRONhungerNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_3 sonpunct
2MymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 sonnmod:poss
3sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing6 repliednsubj
4,,PUNCT_3 sonpunct
5’'PUNCT_3 sonpunct
6repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 mandet
8oldoldADJDegree=Pos9 manamod
9manmanNOUNNumber=Sing6 repliedobj
10,,PUNCT_14 countrypunct
11‘'PUNCT_14 countrypunct
12allallDETPronType=Tot14 countrydet:predet
13thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem14 countrydet
14countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing6 repliedobl
15roundroundADV_16 hereadvmod
16herehereADVPronType=Dem18 uninhabitedadvmod
17isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 uninhabitedcop
18uninhabiteduninhabitedADJDegree=Pos14 countrynmod
19;;PUNCT_22 havepunct
20IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs22 havensubj
21myselfmyselfPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes20 Iobl:unmarked
22havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 repliedparataxis
23totoPART_24 wandermark
24wanderwanderVERBVerbForm=Inf22 havexcomp
25totoADP_27 villagescase
26distantdistantADJDegree=Pos27 villagesamod
27villagesvillageNOUNNumber=Plur24 wanderobl
28forforADP_30 livingcase
29mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 livingnmod:poss
30livinglivingNOUNNumber=Sing24 wanderobl
31,,PUNCT_40 findpunct
32andandCCONJ_40 findcc
33evenevenADV_34 thenadvmod
34thenthenADVPronType=Dem40 findadvmod
35IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs40 findnsubj
36dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin40 findaux
37notnotPARTPolarity=Neg40 findadvmod
38veryveryADV_39 oftenadvmod
39oftenoftenADV_40 findadvmod
40findfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 haveconj
41enoughenoughADJDegree=Pos40 findobj
42totoPART_43 satisfymark
43satisfysatisfyVERBVerbForm=Inf41 enoughadvcl
44mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs45 hungernmod:poss
45hungerhungerNOUNNumber=Sing43 satisfyobj
46..PUNCT_6 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastMy sonthe old manall country oblvn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2ispresenthereuninhabited propertytree rules
3havepresentItree rules
4wanderto-infinitiveI not said heredistant villagesfor my livingvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination
5not findpresent · do-supportIenoughthenoften propertyvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Topic
6satisfyto-infinitiveI not said heremy hungervn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer
7livemynom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent
8hungermynom 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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