More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 96

Quoth he, "I could eat the half of it."

Who acts: Quoth · What happens: eat · To what, where: half

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quoth), 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	Quoth	Quoth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 eat	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Quoth	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Quoth	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 eat	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 half	det
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 eat	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 half	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	could	Quoth	the half of half					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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