Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 48

She would only have to look into her magic-book, and as soon as she had guessed it, she'd order your head to be cut off."

Who acts: Anna · What happens: have, look, guess, order, cut off · To what, where: riddle, head

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anna), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	11 book	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 book	nmod:poss
9	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 book	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 magic	punct
11	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 order	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 order	cc
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 soon	advmod
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 order	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 guessed	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 guessed	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 guessed	aux
19	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 order	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 guessed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 guessed	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 order	nsubj
23	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 order	aux
24	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	conj
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 order	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	29 cut	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 cut	aux:pass
29	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 order	advcl
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 cut	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	would	Anna			tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	Anna not said here		into Anna's magic book	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into book=Theme
3	guess	past · perfect	Anna	riddle		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	order	would	Anna	your head	soon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	cut off	to-infinitive · passive	Anna not said here			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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