The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 91

‘No, while he is eating it,’ said the second boy, stepping across the threshold.

Who acts: emperor, second boy · What happens: eat, say, step · To what, where: porter, threshold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, second boy), 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 eating	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 eating	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eating	punct
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 eating	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eating	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eating	aux
7	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eating	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eating	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 eating	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
13	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 boy	amod
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stepping	punct
16	stepping	step	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
17	across	across	ADP	_	19 threshold	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 threshold	det
19	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stepping	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	eat	present · progressive	emperor	porter		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the second boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	step	gerund	the second boy not said here		the threshold	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across threshold=Trajectory

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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