More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 76
"Have I got to kill thee, dost think, and take thy heart up to the wise woman for that pottle o' brains?"
Who acts: I · What happens: have, get, kill, do, think, take up · To what, where: thee, heart, wise woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Have | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 kill | mark |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 kill | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dost | punct |
| 9 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Have | conj |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dost | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 think | ccomp |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 take | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 woman | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 19 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 pottle | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 pottle | det |
| 23 | pottle | pottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl |
| 24 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 26 brains | case |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 brains | punct |
| 26 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pottle | nmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | thee | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | think speech: other in a quote | infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | take up in a quote | infinitive | thy heart | the wise woman | for that pottle of brains | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heart=Theme to woman=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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