The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 98

I might have eaten it up all by myself, but I had rather share it with you.’

Who acts: I · What happens: eat up, share · To what, where: honeycomb

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 eaten	compound:prt
7	all	all	ADV	_	9 myself	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 myself	case
9	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 eaten	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 share	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 share	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 share	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 share	aux
14	rather	rather	ADV	_	15 share	advmod
15	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 eaten	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 share	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 share	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	might · perfect	I	honeycomb				by myself	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	share	past	I	honeycomb				with you	tree rules

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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