The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 124
‘Next time I meet him I shall do him the honour of eating him up.’
Who acts: I, honour · What happens: meet, do, eat up · To what, where: Otto
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, honour), 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 | _ | 5 meet | punct |
| 2 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meet | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 meet | nsubj |
| 5 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 meet | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 meet | ccomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 honour | det |
| 12 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 eating | mark |
| 14 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 honour | acl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 eating | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 eating | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 meet | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | I | Otto | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | shall | I | Otto | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat up | gerund | the honour not said here | Otto | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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