The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 239

I’ll eat the white cheek and you can eat the red.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: eat · To what, where: white cheek, red

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: who acts (I, you), 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	3 eat	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cheek	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cheek	amod
6	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 eat	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 eat	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	aux
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 eat	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 red	det
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eat	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	future	I	the white cheek					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Patient
2	eat	can	you	the red					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent red=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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