The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 148

Remember, he would eat no salt with you, and what more would you have?

Who acts: you, enemy · What happens: remember, eat, have · To what, where: salt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, enemy), 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	Remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Remember	ccomp
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 salt	det
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 have	obj
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 what	amod
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Remember	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	eat	would	enemy	no salt	with you	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient
3	have	would	you			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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