The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 100

Let them be put in irons and lock them up in prison, whilst I think how I can best put them to death!”

Who acts: I · What happens: let, put, lock up, think · To what, where: goods, irons, prison · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	nsubj:pass
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	aux:pass
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 irons	case
6	irons	iron	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lock	cc
8	lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lock	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 lock	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 prison	case
12	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lock	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 think	punct
14	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	16 think	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 think	nsubj
16	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 put	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 put	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 put	aux
20	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 put	advmod
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 think	ccomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 death	case
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 think	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		goods			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	put	infinitive · passive			irons		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in iron=Destination
3	lock up	present		goods	prison		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	think speech: other	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	put	can	I	goods		to death; well property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

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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