The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 4

They would soon have eaten up all the poor patrimony.

Who acts: scrivener · What happens: eat up · To what, where: poor patrimony

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scrivener), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eaten	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eaten	aux
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 eaten	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 eaten	aux
5	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 eaten	compound:prt
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 patrimony	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 patrimony	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 patrimony	amod
10	patrimony	patrimony	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eaten	obl:unmarked
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	would · perfect	scrivener	all poor patrimony				soon property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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