The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 123

What ate you will eat you no more.’

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

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ate	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obj
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 eat	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past							tree rules
2	eat	future	you	you					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 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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