The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 95

When he’s fat I’ll eat him up.”

Who acts: I · What happens: 'll, eat up · To what, where: Grettel

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 ’s	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ’s	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ’ll	advcl
4	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ’s	obj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ’ll	nsubj
6	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ’ll	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 eat	compound:prt
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ’ll	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 ’ll	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	'll	present	I						tree rules
2	eat up	infinitive	I not said here	Grettel					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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