The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 35

Queen,” said he, “I know you very well, and I know how much afraid you are of the lions; and you are quite right too, for they have eaten many other people: and what can you expect, as you have not any cake to give them?”

Who acts: Queen, man, I, you, lions · What happens: say, know, be, eat, expect, have · To what, where: you, many other people, cake, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, man, I, you), 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	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Queen	punct
3	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Queen	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 know	obj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 well	advmod
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 know	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 know	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
16	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 afraid	amod
19	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 know	ccomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 afraid	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 afraid	cop
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 lions	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lions	det
24	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 are	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 right	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 right	cc
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 right	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 right	cop
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 right	advmod
30	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	parataxis
31	too	too	ADV	_	30 right	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 eaten	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 eaten	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 eaten	nsubj
35	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 eaten	aux
36	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 right	parataxis
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 people	amod
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 people	amod
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 eaten	obj
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 expect	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 expect	cc
42	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	45 expect	obj
43	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 expect	aux
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 expect	nsubj
45	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	parataxis
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 have	punct
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 have	mark
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 have	nsubj
49	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 expect	parataxis
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 cake	advmod
51	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	52 cake	det
52	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 have	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 give	mark
54	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 have	conj
55	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 give	iobj
56	?	?	PUNCT	_	45 expect	punct
57	”	"	PUNCT	_	45 expect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present	man	you		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	you			afraid property	tree rules
5	is	present	you			right property	tree rules
6	eat	present · perfect	lions = lion	many other people			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
7	expect	can	you				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
8	have	present	you	any cake			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
9	give	to-infinitive	you not said here		people		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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