The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 149

‘Who’s been eating out of my little plate?’

What happens: eat out · To what, where: little plate

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	out	out	ADP	_	10 plate	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 plate	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 plate	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plate	amod
10	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 eating	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 eating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat out	present · progressive		my little plate					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=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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