The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 33
'Before I kill him let me see whether he is fat or thin.'
Who acts: I, you, me, cave · What happens: kill, let, see, be · To what, where: cave, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, me, cave), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 2 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 kill | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | nsubj |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | obj |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 12 fat | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fat | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fat | cop |
| 12 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 see | ccomp |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 thin | cc |
| 14 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fat | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | I | cave | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | me not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | cave | fat property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | cave not said here | tree rules |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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