Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 85

The second, ‘Who has been eating off my plate?’

Who acts: second · What happens: eat off · To what, where: plate

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 second	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 eating	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eating	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 eating	punct
5	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 eating	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eating	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 eating	aux
8	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 eating	compound:prt
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 plate	nmod:poss
11	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 eating	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 eating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat off	present · perfect · progressive	the second	my plate					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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