The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 117

“Besides, think how glorious it will be if we DO manage to kill him!

Who acts: you, it · What happens: think, be, kill · To what, where: Rosald

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, it), 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	_	4 think	punct
2	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	4 think	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Besides	punct
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 glorious	advmod
6	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 think	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 manage	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 manage	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 manage	cop
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 manage	mark
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 manage	nsubj
12	DO	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 manage	aux
13	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 kill	mark
15	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 manage	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kill	obj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	imperative	you not said here		glorious property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future · do-support	it		manage property	tree rules
3	kill in a quote	to-infinitive		Rosald		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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