The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 33

‘One of your children,’ said he; ‘and if you don’t throw it to me I will eat up you and the others as well.’

Who acts: king, you, I · What happens: say, not throw, eat up · To what, where: One, fear, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you, 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	_	2 One	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 said	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 children	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 children	nmod:poss
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 children	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 children	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 eat	cc
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 throw	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 throw	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 throw	aux
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 throw	advmod
17	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 eat	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 throw	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 throw	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 eat	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 eat	aux
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 eat	compound:prt
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 eat	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 others	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 others	det
28	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 you	conj
29	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	23 eat	advmod
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 as	fixed
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	king	One		of your children	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not throw a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you	fear	me		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination
3	eat up	future	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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