Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 3

Then cut his head off; and mind you do not forget to bring his eyes with you to-morrow night, that I may eat them."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: cut off, not forget, bring, eat · To what, where: head, eyes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 cut	advmod
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 cut	compound:prt
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 forget	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mind	cc
8	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forget	advcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 forget	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 forget	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 forget	advmod
12	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cut	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 bring	mark
14	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 forget	xcomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eyes	nmod:poss
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bring	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 bring	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 night	case
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 to	punct
21	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 night	compound
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bring	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eat	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 eat	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 eat	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 eat	aux
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 forget	parataxis
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 eat	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 forget	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past		magician's head	then		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
2	not forget	present · do-support	you				tree rules
3	bring	to-infinitive	you not said here	magician's eyes	night	with you	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	eat	may	I	eyes = eye			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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