The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 84
“Then if you would save your head, hand over to me your daughter Maria.”
Who acts: you · What happens: save, hand over · To what, where: head, king
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 save | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 save | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 save | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 save | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 save | aux |
| 6 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 save | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hand | punct |
| 10 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 save | conj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 hand | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hand | obl |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hand | parataxis |
| 16 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 save | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save in a quote | would | you | your head | then | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | hand over in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | king | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to i=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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