The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 145
‘Who’s been eating my little loaf?’
What happens: eat · To what, where: little loaf
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 5 eating | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 eating | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 eating | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 eating | aux |
| 5 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 loaf | nmod:poss |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 loaf | amod |
| 8 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eating | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 eating | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 eating | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · progressive | my little loaf | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient |
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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