The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 9

‘Why, you would be eaten up by wolves.’

Who acts: wolves · What happens: eat up · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolves), 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	_	7 eaten	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 eaten	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 eaten	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 eaten	aux:pass
7	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 eaten	compound:prt
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 wolves	case
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eaten	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 eaten	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	would · passive	wolves	you					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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