The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 15
‘Yes,’ said her husband, ‘so am I pleased; but I’m uncommonly hungry, and I want something to eat at once.’
Who acts: I · What happens: say, be, want, eat · To what, where: husband, something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 pleased | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 pleased | advmod |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pleased | cop |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pleased | nsubj |
| 13 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ’m | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 ’m | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 ’m | nsubj |
| 17 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 18 | uncommonly | uncommonly | ADV | _ | 19 hungry | advmod |
| 19 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ’m | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 want | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 want | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 want | nsubj |
| 23 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ’m | conj |
| 24 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 want | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 eat | mark |
| 26 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 something | acl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 once | case |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 eat | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | wife's husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent husband=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | present | I | hungry property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | want | present | I | something | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | I not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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