The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 49
Now make the best of your good fortune, and kill them and hang them up at once.”
Who acts: you · What happens: make, kill, hang up · To what, where: best, man
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 make | advmod |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 best | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 make | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fortune | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fortune | amod |
| 8 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 best | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kill | cc |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 make | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hang | cc |
| 14 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 kill | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hang | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 hang | compound:prt |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 hang | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | the best | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product | |||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | you not said here | man | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hang up | infinitive | you not said here | man | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at once=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: «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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