The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 99

You shall eat the green ones, they are the best and sweetest; and you can throw the yellow ones down to me.

Who acts: You, bridges · What happens: eat, be, throw · To what, where: green ones, yellow ones, me

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, bridges), 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 eat	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ones	det
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ones	amod
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sweetest	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sweetest	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sweetest	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sweetest	det
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 sweetest	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sweetest	cc
13	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 eat	parataxis
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 throw	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 throw	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 throw	aux
18	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 eat	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ones	det
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ones	amod
21	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 throw	obj
22	down	down	ADV	_	18 throw	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 throw	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	eat	shall	You	the green ones			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	is	present	bridges = bridge			sweet property	tree rules
3	throw	can	you	the yellow ones	me	down property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent one=Theme to i=Destination

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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