The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 89

When at last he could eat no more he said to the girl, ‘Now you can pick up the pieces, and take what is left in the iron pot for your own dinner, but give the bones to the dog.’

Who acts: master, you · What happens: eat, say, pick up, take, leave, give · To what, where: last, girl, pieces, iron pot, bones, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 eat	mark
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eat	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 give	advcl
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 said	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 girl	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pick	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 pick	punct
16	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 pick	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 pick	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 pick	aux
19	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 pick	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pieces	det
22	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pick	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 take	cc
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 pick	conj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 left	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 left	aux:pass
28	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 take	ccomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 pot	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pot	det
31	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pot	compound
32	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 left	obl
33	for	for	ADP	_	36 dinner	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 dinner	nmod:poss
35	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dinner	amod
36	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pot	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 give	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 give	cc
39	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 bones	det
41	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 give	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 dog	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 dog	det
44	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 give	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	39 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	eat	could	master			last		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	master		the girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to girl=Recipient
3	pick up	can	you	the pieces			now	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic
4	take	infinitive	you not said here					vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
5	leave	present · passive				the iron pot for your own dinner		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in pot=Location
6	give	imperative	you not said here	the bones	the dog			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bone=Theme to dog=Recipient

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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