The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 39
I am hungry--I am hungry,’ till Stan scratched his head and wondered what he was to do next.
Who acts: I, Stan · What happens: be, scratch, wonder · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Stan), 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 | 3 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hungry | cop |
| 3 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 hungry | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 hungry | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hungry | cop |
| 7 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hungry | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hungry | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 hungry | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 scratched | mark |
| 11 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 scratched | nsubj |
| 12 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hungry | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scratched | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wondered | cc |
| 16 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 scratched | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 do | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | cop |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wondered | ccomp |
| 22 | next | next | ADV | _ | 21 do | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | scratch | past | Stan | Stan's head | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | past | Stan not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Stan | do, next property | tree rules |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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