The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 82
We will kill them and have them for dinner.”
Who acts: We · What happens: kill, have · To what, where: 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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 kill | aux |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 have | cc |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kill | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 dinner | case |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | future | We | man | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | We not said here | man | for dinner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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