The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 92

There, lay hold of these two wicked girls, they will be a tender morsel for you, as fat as young quails; eat them up, for heaven’s sake.”

Who acts: girls, young · What happens: lie, be, quail, eat up, hold · To what, where: hold, tender morsel, girls, two wicked girls

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, young), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lay	expl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 girls	case
6	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 girls	nsubj
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 girls	nummod
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girls	amod
9	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 morsel	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 morsel	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 morsel	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 morsel	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 morsel	det
15	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 morsel	amod
16	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 morsel	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fat	punct
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 fat	advmod
21	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lay	conj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 quails	mark
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 quails	nsubj
24	quails	quail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 fat	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 eat	punct
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lay	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 eat	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 eat	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sake	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 sake	case
31	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sake	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 heaven	case
33	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eat	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past		hold of two wicked girls	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hold=Theme
2	is a	future	girls = girl	a tender morsel		for you	tree rules
3	quail	present	young				vn flinch-40.5 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	eat up	infinitive		girls = girl		for heaven's sake	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	hold			two wicked girls			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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