The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 101

Whoever eats this apple shall have a child.’

Who acts: Whoever, apple · What happens: eat, have · To what, where: child

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whoever, apple), 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	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 apple	det
4	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eats	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eats	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 eats	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Whoever						tree rules
2	have	shall	this apple	a child					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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