The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 67

‘I can easily eat it myself; but if you will have something you can have a whack of my stick,’ and with that she raised it in the air and struck the bergman over the head with it.

Who acts: I, you, world · What happens: eat, have, raise, strike, whack · To what, where: dinner, something, whack, air, bergman, head

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. 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, world), 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 eat	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
4	easily	easily	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obj
7	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	5 eat	obl:unmarked
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 have	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 eat	conj
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 have	obj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 something	acl:relcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 whack	det
19	whack	whack	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 stick	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 stick	nmod:poss
22	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 whack	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 raised	cc
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 that	case
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 raised	obl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 raised	nsubj
29	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 raised	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 air	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 air	det
33	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 raised	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 struck	cc
35	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 raised	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bergman	det
37	bergman	bergman	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 struck	obj
38	over	over	ADP	_	40 head	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 head	det
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 struck	obl
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 struck	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	can	I	dinner		myself obl:unmarked; easily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	have a condition, not said to happen	future	you	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
3	have	can	you	a whack of my stick			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whack=Patient
4	raise	past	world	dinner	the air	with that	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in air=Destination
5	strike	past	world not said here	the bergman	the head	with dinner	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bergman=Patient with it=Instrument
6	whack			my stick			nom whack «event transitive»: of=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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