The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 95

You will breakfast off the lamb, you will dine off the sheep, and you will sup off the ram.'

Who acts: you · What happens: dine off, sup · To what, where: sheep

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 breakfast	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 breakfast	aux
3	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 lamb	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lamb	det
6	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breakfast	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dine	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 dine	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 dine	aux
10	dine	dine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 breakfast	parataxis
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 dine	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sheep	det
13	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dine	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sup	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sup	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 sup	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sup	aux
18	sup	sup	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dine	conj
19	off	off	ADP	_	21 ram	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ram	det
21	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sup	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 breakfast	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 breakfast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dine off	future	you	the sheep					tree rules
2	sup	future	you					off the ram	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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