English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 54

By-and-by he cried out again: “Oh, if I had another bite of that birdie!” so Kate gave him another bite, and he sat up on his bed.

Who acts: prince, Kate · What happens: cry out, have, give, sit up, bite · To what, where: bite, prince, bed, 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 (prince, Kate), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cried	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 cried	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 cried	compound:prt
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 cried	advmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
12	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	16 had	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Oh	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	parataxis
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 bite	det
18	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 birdie	case
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 birdie	det
21	birdie	birdie	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bite	nmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 birdie	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 gave	advmod
25	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 gave	nsubj
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	iobj
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 bite	det
29	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sat	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sat	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sat	nsubj
33	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	parataxis
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 sat	compound:prt
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 bed	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 bed	nmod:poss
37	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sat	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	prince				again	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	prince	another bite of that birdie				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient
3	give	past	Kate	another bite	prince			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bite=Theme
4	sit up	past	prince			prince's bed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location
5	bite in a quote			that 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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