More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 16

And he said: "Now, you can eat as much as ever you like from any of the dishes on the table; but don't touch the covered dish in the middle till I come back."

Who acts: master, you · What happens: say, eat, like, not touch, cover, come back · To what, where: much, any, covered dish, middle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
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	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 eat	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 eat	punct
6	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 eat	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Now	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 eat	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	aux
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eat	obj
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 ever	case
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 much	obl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
16	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	parataxis
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 any	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 like	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 dishes	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dishes	det
21	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 any	nmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 table	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 table	det
24	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dishes	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 touch	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 touch	cc
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 touch	aux
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 touch	advmod
29	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dish	det
31	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 dish	amod
32	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 touch	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 middle	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 middle	det
35	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dish	nmod
36	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 come	mark
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 come	nsubj
38	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 touch	advcl
39	back	back	ADV	_	38 come	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 touch	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 touch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	master				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat in a quote	can	you	much		now	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
3	like in a quote	present	you		any		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	not touch in a quote	infinitive · do-support		the covered dish	the middle		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dish=Co-Theme
5	cover in a quote	participle					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	come back in a quote	present	master				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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