The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 40

“Ho, ho! it is thou, then, who art eating up our hay this time,” thought the boy; “but I will put a stop to that.”

Who acts: Ho, art, boy · What happens: be, art, eat up, think, put · To what, where: 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, art, boy), 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	8 thou	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ho	punct
4	ho	ho	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ho	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ho	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thou	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thou	cop
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 thought	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 art	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 art	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 art	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 art	nsubj
13	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thou	parataxis
14	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 art	acl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 eating	compound:prt
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hay	nmod:poss
17	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eating	obj
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eating	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thou	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 thou	punct
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thought	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 put	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 put	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 put	aux
30	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thought	ccomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 stop	det
32	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 that	case
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 put	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Ho and ho	thou			tree rules
2	art in a quote				then		tree rules
3	eat up in a quote	gerund	art not said here	our hay	time		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient
4	think speech: other	past	the boy				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	put in a quote	future	the boy = boy	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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