The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 82

'But surely a person of your talents must perceive that you might eat me to the very last morsel and never know that you had swallowed anything at all!'

Who acts: person, you · What happens: perceive, eat, not know, swallow · To what, where: me, anything, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, 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	_	10 perceive	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 perceive	cc
3	surely	surely	ADV	_	10 perceive	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 perceive	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 talents	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 talents	nmod:poss
8	talents	talent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 person	nmod
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 perceive	aux
10	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 eat	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 eat	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 eat	aux
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 perceive	advcl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 eat	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 morsel	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 morsel	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 last	advmod
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 morsel	amod
20	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eat	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 know	cc
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 know	advmod
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 perceive	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 swallowed	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 swallowed	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 swallowed	aux
27	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 know	ccomp
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 swallowed	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 all	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 swallowed	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 perceive	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 perceive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perceive	must	a person of your talents			surely property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	eat	might	you	me		to the last morsel	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	not know	infinitive	a person of your talents not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	swallow	past · perfect	you	anything	all		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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 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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