The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 31

It is your own wife that you have eaten, and if you want to find her bones you have only to look under the floor.’

Who acts: net, own wife, you · What happens: be, eat, want, find, have, look · To what, where: own wife, bones

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (net, own wife, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wife	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wife	cop
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wife	amod
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 eaten	nsubj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 eaten	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 eaten	aux
9	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 wife	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 have	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 want	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 want	nsubj
14	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 have	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 find	mark
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 want	xcomp
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 bones	nmod:poss
18	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 find	obj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wife	parataxis
21	only	only	ADV	_	23 look	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 look	mark
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 have	xcomp
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 floor	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 floor	det
26	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 look	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wife	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 wife	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	net	your own wife		tree rules
2	eat	present · perfect	your own wife			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	wife's bones		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Topic
5	have	present	you			tree rules
6	look	to-infinitive	you not said here		under the floor	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under floor=Theme

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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