The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 70

You are the biggest,” he said to the third, “so you shall be the ogre who wants to eat me; and you,” to another, “are very little, therefore you shall be me.

Who acts: You, biggest, ogre · What happens: be, say, want, eat · To what, where: another, ogre, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, biggest, ogre), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 biggest	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 biggest	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 biggest	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 biggest	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 biggest	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 third	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 third	det
11	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 third	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 ogre	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	19 ogre	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 ogre	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 ogre	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 ogre	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ogre	det
19	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 third	appos
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 wants	nsubj
21	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 ogre	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 eat	mark
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wants	xcomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 eat	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 you	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 you	cc
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 said	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 you	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 you	punct
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 another	case
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 said	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 little	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 little	punct
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 little	cop
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 little	advmod
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 me	punct
38	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	42 me	advmod
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 me	nsubj
40	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 me	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 me	cop
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 little	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	You			big property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the biggest		another		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to another=Recipient
3	is a	shall	you	the ogre			tree rules
4	want	present	the ogre				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the ogre not said here	me			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6	is	present	the biggest not said here			little property	tree rules
7	is a	shall	you	me		therefore property	tree rules

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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