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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 95

“Who-so mocks at me merits death,” declared the king when he had ended, and drawing his sword, cut off the doll’s head.

Who acts: mocks, king · What happens: merit, declare, end, draw, cut off · To what, where: death, sword, head · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mocks, king), 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

punctnsubjpunctadvmodnsubjcasenmodadvclobjpunctpunctdetobjmarknsubjauxadvclpunctccadvclnmod:possobjpunctadvclcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctroot“PUNCTWhoPRON-PUNCTsoADVmocksNOUNatADPmePRONmeritsVERBdeathNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTdeclaredVERBtheDETkingNOUNwhenSCONJhePRONhadAUXendedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJdrawingVERBhisPRONswordNOUN,PUNCTcutVERBoffADPtheDETdollNOUN’sPARTheadNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_12 declaredpunct
2WhowhoPRONPronType=Rel3 -nsubj
3--PUNCT_8 meritspunct
4sosoADV_8 meritsadvmod
5mocksmockNOUNNumber=Plur8 meritsnsubj
6atatADP_7 mecase
7meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs5 mocksnmod
8meritsmeritVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 declaredadvcl
9deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing8 meritsobj
10,,PUNCT_8 meritspunct
11”"PUNCT_8 meritspunct
12declareddeclareVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 kingdet
14kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing12 declaredobj
15whenwhenSCONJ_18 endedmark
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 endednsubj
17hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 endedaux
18endedendVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part12 declaredadvcl
19,,PUNCT_21 drawingpunct
20andandCCONJ_21 drawingcc
21drawingdrawVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 declaredadvcl
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 swordnmod:poss
23swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing21 drawingobj
24,,PUNCT_25 cutpunct
25cutcutVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 drawingadvcl
26offoffADP_30 headcase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 dolldet
28dolldollNOUNNumber=Sing30 headnmod:poss
29’s'sPART_28 dollcase
30headheadNOUNNumber=Sing25 cutobl
31..PUNCT_12 declaredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1merit in a quotepresentmocks at medeathtree rules
2declare speech: otherpastthe kingvn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3endpast · perfectkingvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4drawgerundthe king not said hereking's swordvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
5cut offparticiplethe king not said herethe doll's headvn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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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