The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 35

'Eat as many loaves as you like, but do me no harm, little maiden,' cried the oven.

Who acts: you · What happens: eat, like, do, cry · To what, where: many loaves, harm, me, oven · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 Eat	punct
2	Eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 cried	ccomp
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 loaves	amod
5	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Eat	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 like	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
8	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Eat	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 do	cc
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Eat	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 do	iobj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 harm	det
14	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 maiden	punct
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 maiden	amod
17	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 do	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Eat	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Eat	punct
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 oven	det
22	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cried	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	eat	infinitive		many loaves		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient
2	like	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	do	infinitive		no harm	me	tree rules
4	cry speech: express	past		the oven		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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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