The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 95

Throw me first over this precipice, so that my feathers may be strewn here and there, and that all who see them may know that your cunning is greater than mine.”

Who acts: you, all, cunning · What happens: throw, strewn, see, know, be · To what, where: me, precipice, feathers

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, all, cunning), 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	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Throw	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 precipice	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 precipice	det
6	precipice	precipice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 strewn	punct
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 strewn	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feathers	nmod:poss
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 strewn	nsubj:pass
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 strewn	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 strewn	aux:pass
14	strewn	strewn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Throw	conj
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 strewn	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 there	cc
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 here	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 know	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 know	mark
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 know	nsubj:outer
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 see	nsubj
23	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 all	acl:relcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	obj
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 know	aux
26	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Throw	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 greater	mark
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 cunning	nmod:poss
29	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 greater	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 greater	cop
31	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 know	advcl
32	than	than	ADP	_	33 mine	case
33	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 greater	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Throw	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	me	this precipice	first property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme over precipice=Destination
2	strewn	may · passive		my feathers	here		tree rules
3	see	present		feathers = feather			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	know	may	all				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	your cunning			than mine; great property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/24/95/