The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 62

‘I am Stan Bolovan, who eats rocks all night, and in the day feeds on the flowers of the mountain; and if you meddle with those sheep I will carve a cross on your back.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, eat, feed, meddle, carve · To what, where: Stan, rocks, cross, back

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 Stan	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 Stan	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Stan	cop
4	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 eats	obl
5	Bolovan	Bolovan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Stan	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eats	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 eats	nsubj
8	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eats	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eats	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 feeds	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 feeds	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feeds	obl
17	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eats	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 flowers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flowers	det
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 feeds	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 mountain	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mountain	det
23	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flowers	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 carve	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 carve	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 meddle	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 meddle	nsubj
28	meddle	meddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 carve	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 sheep	case
30	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	31 sheep	det
31	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 meddle	obl
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 carve	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 carve	aux
34	carve	carve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 eats	parataxis
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cross	det
36	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 carve	obj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 back	case
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 back	nmod:poss
39	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cross	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 carve	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 carve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	Stan				tree rules
2	eat	present		rocks		night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient
3	feed	present				day	on the flowers of the mountain	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on flower=Patient
4	meddle a condition, not said to happen	present	you				with that sheep	tree rules
5	carve	future	I	a cross	your back			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cross=Theme on back=Destination

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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