The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 128

Indeed, it would be better to put you to death at once, and I’ve a good mind to do so.”

Who acts: it, I · What happens: be, put, have, do · To what, where: you, good mind

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, I), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 better	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 better	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 better	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 better	cop
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 put	mark
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 better	csubj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 put	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 death	case
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ’ve	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ’ve	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 ’ve	nsubj
17	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 better	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 mind	det
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mind	amod
20	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ’ve	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 ’ve	advcl
23	so	so	ADV	_	22 do	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	it		good, indeed property	tree rules
2	put	to-infinitive		you	to death	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme at once=Destination
3	have	present	I	a good mind		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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