The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 44

“You must be very fond of being eaten up alive.”

Who acts: You · What happens: be, eat up

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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 fond	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fond	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 fond	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 fond	advmod
6	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 eaten	mark
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 eaten	aux:pass
9	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fond	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 eaten	compound:prt
11	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eaten	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fond	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	must	You					fond property	tree rules
2	eat up in a quote	gerund · passive	You not said here					alive property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»

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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