The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 145
‘Give me, instead, that half-starved creature in the corner,’ asked the prince.
What happens: give, starve, ask · To what, where: starved creature, me, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 5 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 2 Give | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 creature | punct |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 creature | det |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 10 starved | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 half | punct |
| 10 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 creature | amod |
| 11 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 corner | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 corner | det |
| 14 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 creature | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prince | det |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 asked | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | infinitive | that starved creature in the corner | me | instead property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | starve | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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