The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 62

And my be ‘tis boiling and eating my own grandchild I’ll be, with a bit of salt butter, and I not knowing it!

Who acts: tis boiling, I · What happens: be, eat, 'll, not know · To what, where: tis boiling, own grandchild, grandchild

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (tis boiling, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 eating	cc
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boiling	nmod:poss
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 boiling	cop
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 boiling	punct
5	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boiling	compound
6	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 eating	cc
8	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 grandchild	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grandchild	amod
11	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	obj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 ’ll	nsubj
13	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eating	parataxis
14	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ’ll	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bit	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 bit	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bit	det
18	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 be	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 butter	case
20	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 butter	compound
21	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bit	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 knowing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 knowing	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 knowing	nsubj
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 knowing	advmod
26	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 eating	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knowing	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 eating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		my tis boiling		tree rules
2	eat	gerund	my tis boiling	my own grandchild		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandchild=Patient
3	'll	present	I			tree rules
4	be	infinitive	I not said here		with a bit of salt butter	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not know	gerund	I	grandchild		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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