The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 91

But eat and sleep and I will watch over thee.’

Who acts: I · What happens: eat, sleep, watch · To what, where: thee

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 eat	cc
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sleep	cc
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 watch	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 watch	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 watch	aux
8	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eat	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 thee	case
10	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 watch	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	eat	present			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	present			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	watch	future	I	thee	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over thou=Location

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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