The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 44

‘Why, you have no more power than a flea,’ laughed the host; ‘you will have to content yourself with feasting your eyes upon them!’

Who acts: you · What happens: have, laugh, content, feast · To what, where: more power, host, yourself, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	14 laughed	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 have	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 laughed	advcl
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 power	det
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 power	amod
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 flea	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 flea	det
11	flea	flea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 power	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 laughed	punct
14	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 host	det
16	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laughed	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 laughed	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 content	mark
23	content	content	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 have	xcomp
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 content	obj
25	with	with	SCONJ	_	26 feasting	mark
26	feasting	feast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 content	advcl
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 eyes	nmod:poss
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 feasting	obj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 feasting	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 laughed	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	you	no more power	than a flea	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	laugh	past		the host		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Theme
3	have	future	you			tree rules
4	content	to-infinitive	you not said here	yourself		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer
5	feast	gerund	you not said here	your eyes	upon eyes = eye	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/44/