The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 64
Do ye know that this house belongs to a cruel ogre who eats up little children?”
Who acts: ye, house, cruel ogre · What happens: know, belong, eat up · To what, where: little children · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, house, cruel ogre), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 belongs | mark |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 belongs | nsubj |
| 7 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ogre | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ogre | det |
| 10 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ogre | amod |
| 11 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 belongs | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 eats | nsubj |
| 13 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ogre | acl:relcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 eats | compound:prt |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 children | amod |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eats | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | ye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | belong | present | this house | to a cruel ogre | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat up | present | a cruel ogre | little children | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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 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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