The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 31

“Ho, ho!” thought the boy, “is it thou who eatest up our hay in the night? but I will put a stop to that.”

Who acts: Ho, grass, thou · What happens: think, be, eat up, put · To what, where: boy, thou, hay, stop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ho, grass, thou), 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 Ho	punct
2	Ho	ho	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ho	punct
4	ho	ho	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ho	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ho	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ho	punct
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eatest	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 thou	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 thou	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thou	nsubj
14	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 eatest	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 eatest	nsubj
16	eatest	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	parataxis
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 eatest	compound:prt
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hay	nmod:poss
19	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eatest	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 night	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 night	det
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eatest	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 put	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 put	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 put	aux
27	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thought	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 stop	det
29	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 that	case
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 put	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 put	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Ho and ho	the boy			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent boy=Attribute clause=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	grass	thou			tree rules
3	eat up in a quote	present	thou	our hay	night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient
4	put in a quote	future	Ho and ho = ho	a stop		to that	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stop=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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