English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 53
“Oh!” said the sick prince, “I wish I had a bite of that birdie,” so Kate gave him a bite of the birdie, and he rose up on his elbow.
Who acts: sick prince, Kate, prince · What happens: say, wish, have, give, rise up, bite · To what, where: bite, prince, elbow, birdie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sick prince, Kate, prince), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 7 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 prince | amod |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wish | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bite | det |
| 16 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 birdie | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 birdie | det |
| 19 | birdie | birdie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bite | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 gave | advmod |
| 23 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | iobj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bite | det |
| 27 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 birdie | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 birdie | det |
| 30 | birdie | birdie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bite | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 rose | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 rose | cc |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 rose | nsubj |
| 34 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 rose | compound:prt |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 elbow | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 38 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rose | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the sick prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | the sick prince = prince | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | the sick prince = prince | a bite of that birdie | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Kate | a bite of the birdie | prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bite=Theme | |||
| 5 | rise up | past | prince | prince's elbow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on elbow=Location | ||||
| 6 | bite in a quote | that birdie | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | bite | the birdie | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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