The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 87

“Have patience,” answered she; “I will call him, and you can eat him at once.”

Who acts: number, ogre, you · What happens: have, answer, call, eat · To what, where: patience, number, Motikatika · 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 (number, ogre, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Have	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Have	parataxis
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 call	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 call	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 call	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 call	aux
12	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Have	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 call	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eat	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 eat	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 eat	aux
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 call	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eat	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 eat	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have in a quote	imperative	number not said here	patience		tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			number	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
3	call in a quote	future	the ogre = ogre		Motikatika	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	eat in a quote	can	you	Motikatika		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «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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