English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 63

And then after they had talked a little longer Childe Rowland began to feel hungry from his long travels, and told his sister Burd Ellen how hungry he was and asked for some food, forgetting all about the Warlock Merlin's warning.

Who acts: brothers, Childe, long, Burd, Warlock Merlin · What happens: talk, begin, feel, travel, tell, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, Childe, long, Burd), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 talked	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 talked	advmod
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 talked	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talked	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talked	aux
6	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 began	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 longer	obl:unmarked
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 talked	advmod
10	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
11	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Childe	flat
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 feel	mark
14	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feel	xcomp
16	from	from	SCONJ	_	19 travels	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 travels	nmod:poss
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 travels	nsubj
19	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hungry	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 began	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sister	nmod:poss
24	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Burd	nmod:desc
25	Burd	Burd	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 hungry	nsubj
26	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Burd	flat
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 hungry	advmod
28	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 told	ccomp
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hungry	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hungry	cop
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 asked	cc
32	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 told	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 food	case
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 food	det
35	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 asked	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 forgetting	punct
37	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 asked	advcl
38	all	all	ADV	_	44 warning	advmod
39	about	about	ADP	_	44 warning	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Merlin	det
41	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Merlin	compound
42	Merlin	Merlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 warning	nmod:poss
43	's	's	PART	_	42 Merlin	case
44	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 forgetting	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · perfect	brothers = brother	then	long property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	Childe			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	feel	to-infinitive	Childe not said here		hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	travel	present	long			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	Burd Childe's sister		hungry property	tree rules
7	ask speech: ask	past			for some food	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	forget	gerund			about the Warlock Merlin's warning	tree rules
9	warn		the Warlock Merlin			nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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