The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 109
Why, at your age one is always ready to eat; and now you have been walking, and I suppose you are ravenous?’
Who acts: age, you, I · What happens: be, eat, walk, suppose · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (age, you, I), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 ready | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 age | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 age | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 age | nmod:poss |
| 5 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ready | nsubj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 age | flat |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ready | cop |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 ready | advmod |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 eat | mark |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ready | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 walking | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 walking | cc |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 walking | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 walking | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 walking | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 walking | aux |
| 18 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ready | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 suppose | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 suppose | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 suppose | nsubj |
| 22 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ready | parataxis |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 ravenous | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 ravenous | cop |
| 25 | ravenous | ravenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 suppose | ccomp |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 ready | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | your age | always, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | your age not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | walk | present · perfect · progressive | you | now | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | you | ravenous 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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