English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 55

Then he said again: “Oh! if I only had a third bite of that birdie!”

Who acts: prince · What happens: say, have, bite · To what, where: third bite, 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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	12 had	discourse
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Oh	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 had	advmod
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bite	det
14	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 bite	amod
15	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 birdie	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 birdie	det
18	birdie	birdie	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bite	nmod
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	prince		then; again	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	prince	a third bite of that birdie		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient
3	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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