The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 48
He felt hungry too, so he called his dog ‘Salt,’ and asked him to bring home some food.
Who acts: stranger · What happens: feel, call, ask, bring · To what, where: dog, stranger, food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 felt | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 called | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dog | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obj |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Salt | punct |
| 12 | Salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Salt | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Salt | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | iobj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bring | mark |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | xcomp |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 bring | advmod |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 food | det |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bring | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | stranger | hungry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | call | past | stranger | stranger's dog | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | stranger not said here | stranger | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | stranger not said here | some food | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=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 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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