The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 42

You can eat the green ones, which are the nicest, and I will be content with the yellow.”

Who acts: You, green ones, I · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: green ones

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, green ones, I), 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	can	can	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	_	11 nicest	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 nicest	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 nicest	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nicest	det
11	nicest	nice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 ones	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 content	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 content	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 content	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 content	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 content	cop
17	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eat	parataxis
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 yellow	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 yellow	det
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 content	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	can	You	the green ones		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	is	present	the green ones		nice property	tree rules
3	is	future	I		with the yellow; content property	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 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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