The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 10

Suppose it was useless; suppose the mare, and not the colt, ate the crumbs?

Who acts: you, slice, colt · What happens: suppose, be, eat · To what, where: mare, crumbs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, slice, colt), 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	Suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 useless	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 useless	cop
4	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Suppose	ccomp
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 suppose	punct
6	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Suppose	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mare	det
8	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 suppose	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ate	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ate	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 colt	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 colt	det
13	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ate	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 colt	punct
15	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 suppose	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crumbs	det
17	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ate	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suppose	imperative	you not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is	past	slice		useless property	tree rules
3	suppose	infinitive		the mare		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent mare=Attribute
4	eat	past	the colt	the crumbs		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=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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