--- title: “Oh!” said the sick prince, “I wish I had a bite of that birdie,” so… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:43:53 # text = “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. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 birdie birdie NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 Kate Kate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 birdie birdie NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 elbow elbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/43/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/43/54/) - ↑ back to [Kate Crackernuts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/43/)