The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 46

Cut off these twigs and strike their roots with them, and the iron door of a cellar will open.

Who acts: you, iron door · What happens: cut off, strike, open · To what, where: twigs, roots

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, iron door), 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	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Cut	compound:prt
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 twigs	det
4	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cut	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 strike	cc
6	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Cut	conj
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 roots	nmod:poss
8	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 strike	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 strike	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 open	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 open	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
14	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 door	amod
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 open	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 cellar	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cellar	det
18	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 door	nmod
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 open	aux
20	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Cut	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut off	imperative	you not said here	this twigs		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector twig=Eventuality
2	strike	present	you not said here	twigs's roots	with twigs = twig	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent root=Patient with they=Instrument
3	open	future	the iron door of a cellar			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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