The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 77

“Ah, ah!” said he; “I see then how thou wouldst cheat me, thou cursed woman; I know not why I do not eat thee up too, but it is well for thee that thou art a tough old carrion.

Who acts: ogre, thou, word · What happens: say, see, cheat, curse, not know, not eat up · To what, where: ogre, woman, thee · 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 (ogre, thou, word), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	ah	ah	INTJ	_	2 Ah	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
12	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 cheat	advmod
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 cheat	advmod
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 cheat	nsubj
16	wouldst	would	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	17 cheat	aux
17	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 see	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 cheat	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cursed	punct
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 cursed	nsubj
21	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 see	conj
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cursed	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 know	nsubj
25	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 know	advmod
27	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	31 eat	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 eat	nsubj
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 eat	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 eat	advmod
31	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 know	ccomp
32	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 eat	obj
33	up	up	ADP	_	31 eat	compound:prt
34	too	too	ADV	_	31 eat	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 art	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 art	cc
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 thee	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 thee	cop
39	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 thee	advmod
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 thee	case
41	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	44 art	nsubj
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 thee	nmod:unmarked
43	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	44 art	nsubj
44	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 carrion	det
46	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 carrion	amod
47	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 carrion	amod
48	carrion	carrion	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 art	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	ogre				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	present	ogre				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	cheat in a quote	would	thou	ogre	then		vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source
4	curse in a quote	past	thou	woman			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
5	not know in a quote	present	ogre				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	not eat up in a quote	present · do-support	ogre	thee			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient
7	is in a quote	present	word			for thee; that nmod:unmarked; well property	tree rules

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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