The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 116

‘You silly thing!’ said the young man; ‘I’ve caught you, and I shall eat you.’

Who acts: You, young man, I · What happens: thing, say, catch, eat · To what, where: I, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, young man, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thing	nsubj
3	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 caught	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 caught	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 caught	nsubj:pass
14	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 caught	aux:pass
15	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 caught	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 eat	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 eat	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 eat	aux
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 eat	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 eat	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	thing		You		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the young man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	catch	present · passive		I	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary you=Theme
4	eat	shall	I	you	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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