The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 85

“Hold your prating,” said the Ogre; “they will eat the tenderer.

Who acts: Ogre, feet · What happens: hold, say, eat · To what, where: prating, tenderer · 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, feet), 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	_	2 Hold	punct
2	Hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 prating	nmod:poss
4	prating	prating	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hold	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Ogre	det
9	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 eat	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 eat	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eat	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 eat	aux
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tenderer	det
16	tenderer	tenderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eat	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold in a quote	infinitive		your prating	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prating=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Ogre		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat in a quote	future	feet = foot	the tenderer	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tenderer=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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