The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 89

“Oh! it isn’t that I care much to have that honor,” cried the Dwarf angrily; “but here are the lions coming; they’ll eat you up in three mouthfuls, and there will be an end of you and your pride.”

Who acts: thing, lions, end, your · What happens: not be, have, cry, be, come, eat up · To what, where: honor, Dwarf, you, three mouthfuls · 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 (thing, lions, end, your), 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	_	17 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 care	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 care	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 care	cop
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 care	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 care	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 care	nsubj
9	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 cried	advcl
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 care	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 have	mark
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 much	acl
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 honor	det
14	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 care	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 care	punct
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Dwarf	det
19	Dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cried	obj
20	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	17 cried	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 here	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 here	cc
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 cried	conj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 here	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lions	det
27	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 here	nsubj
28	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 lions	acl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 eat	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 eat	nsubj
31	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 eat	aux
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cried	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 eat	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 eat	compound:prt
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 mouthfuls	case
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 mouthfuls	nummod
37	mouthfuls	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 eat	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 be	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 be	cc
40	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	42 be	expl
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 be	aux
42	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cried	conj
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 end	det
44	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 be	nsubj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 you	case
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 end	nmod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 pride	cc
48	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 pride	nmod:poss
49	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 you	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	thing			care property	tree rules
2	have in a quote	to-infinitive		that honor			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honor=Patient
3	cry speech: express	past		the Dwarf		angrily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	the lions			here property	tree rules
5	come in a quote	gerund	the lions not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	eat up in a quote	future	lions = lion	you	three mouthfuls		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
7	be in a quote	future	a end of you		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	pride in a quote		your				nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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