The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 71

‘You told the dove how to get the better of me, and I am going to eat you for it.’

Who acts: You, I · What happens: tell, get, go, eat · To what, where: dove, 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 (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	_	3 told	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dove	det
5	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 get	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 better	det
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 get	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 better	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 going	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 going	xcomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 eat	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 eat	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	You	the dove		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent dove=Recipient clause=Topic
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive			good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	go	present · progressive	I			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	eat	to-infinitive	I not said here	you	for harm	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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