The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 22
I have just emptied the last grains of meal out of the chest, and baked a bannock; but it won’t last over to-morrow.’
Who acts: bannock · What happens: empty, bake, not last over · To what, where: I, bannock
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bannock), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 emptied | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 emptied | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 emptied | advmod |
| 4 | emptied | empty | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grains | det |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grains | amod |
| 7 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 emptied | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 meal | case |
| 9 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grains | nmod |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 chest | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 chest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chest | det |
| 13 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meal | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 baked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 baked | cc |
| 16 | baked | bake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 emptied | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bannock | det |
| 18 | bannock | bannock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 baked | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 last | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 last | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 last | nsubj |
| 22 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 last | aux |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 last | advmod |
| 24 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 emptied | parataxis |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 last | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 morrow | case |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 to | punct |
| 28 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 last | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 last | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | empty | present · perfect · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bake | past | a bannock | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bannock=Product | |||||
| 3 | not last over | future | bannock | to morrow | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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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