The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 87

“That is true,” said the Ogre; “give them their belly full that they may not fall away, and put them to bed.”

Who acts: That, Ogre, feet · What happens: be, say, give, not fall away, put · To what, where: belly, feet · 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 (That, 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	_	4 true	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 true	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	_	12 give	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 belly	nmod:poss
15	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 belly	amod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 fall	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fall	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fall	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 fall	advmod
21	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 full	advcl
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 fall	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 put	cc
25	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 give	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 bed	case
28	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That			true property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Ogre				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	infinitive		feet's belly	feet = foot		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient belly=Theme
4	not fall away in a quote	may	feet = foot			away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	put in a quote	infinitive		feet = foot		to bed	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

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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