The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 8

I’ll make you eat your promises!’

Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: make, eat, promise · To what, where: you, promises

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 (I, you, your), 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 make	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 promises	nmod:poss
7	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	future	I	you	tree rules
2	eat	infinitive	you not said here	your promises	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Patient
3	promise		your		nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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