Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 54

And they looked at him in amazement and scorn.--"Dare to laugh at me again," said he, "and I'll have your heads chopped off!"

Who acts: burners, man, heads · What happens: look, dare, laugh, say, have, chop off · To what, where: amazement, heads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (burners, man, heads), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 looked	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	ccomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 amazement	case
7	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 scorn	cc
9	scorn	scorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 amazement	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 Dare	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Dare	punct
13	Dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 looked	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 laugh	mark
15	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Dare	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 laugh	obl
18	again	again	ADV	_	15 laugh	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
27	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	conj
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 heads	nmod:poss
30	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 have	obj
31	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 have	xcomp
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 chopped	compound:prt
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	burners = burner		amazement and scorn		at man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	dare in a quote	infinitive	burners = burner not said here					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	laugh in a quote	to-infinitive	burners = burner not said here			again	at man	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: express	past	man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have in a quote	future	man	your heads				tree rules
6	chop off in a quote	participle	your heads not said here					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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