The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 97

The man who could kill you deserves to die!”

Who acts: man · What happens: kill, deserve, die · To what, where: you

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 (man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deserves	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 kill	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kill	aux
5	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 man	acl:relcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 kill	obj
7	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 die	mark
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 deserves	xcomp
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 deserves	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 deserves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	kill	could	the man	you	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	deserve	present	the man		tree rules
3	die	to-infinitive	the man not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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