The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 5

“If wild animals were to come and tear me to pieces,” he said to himself bitterly, “it would be only what I deserve!

Who acts: wild animals, mind, money · What happens: come, tear, say, be, deserve · To what, where: mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (wild animals, mind, money), 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 come	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 come	mark
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tear	cc
9	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tear	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 pieces	case
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tear	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 said	obl
19	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	16 said	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 what	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 what	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 what	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 what	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 what	cop
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 what	advmod
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 said	parataxis
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 deserve	nsubj
28	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 what	acl:relcl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	wild animals				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tear in a quote	infinitive	wild animals not said here	mind		to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient to piece=Result
3	say speech: express	past	mind		mind	bitterly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is a in a quote	would	money				tree rules
5	deserve in a quote	present	mind				tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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