The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 54

When he is at home I must hide you, for he has eaten up all my pages hitherto, and you would be a dainty morsel, my little lad.’

Who acts: giant, home, you, my · What happens: be, hide, eat up, page · To what, where: home, you, pages, dainty morsel

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, home, you, my), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 home	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 home	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 home	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hide	nsubj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 hide	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hide	aux
8	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 hide	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eaten	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 eaten	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eaten	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 eaten	aux
14	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 hide	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 eaten	compound:prt
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 pages	det:predet
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 pages	nmod:poss
18	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eaten	obl:unmarked
19	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	14 eaten	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 morsel	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 morsel	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 morsel	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 morsel	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 morsel	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 morsel	det
26	dainty	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 morsel	amod
27	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eaten	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lad	punct
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 lad	nmod:poss
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lad	amod
31	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 morsel	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hide	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 hide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	giant		home		tree rules
2	hide	must	home	you			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	eat up	present · perfect	giant	my pages		hitherto property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	would	you	a dainty morsel and my little lad			tree rules
5	page		my				nom page «communication 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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