The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 111

“Come and eat something, my grandson.”

Who acts: you · What happens: come, eat · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 eat	cc
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	conj
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 eat	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grandson	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 grandson	nmod:poss
8	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 something	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	something					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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 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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