The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 86

If you would like this woman killed, I will put poison into her cup so that she will never lift her head from her drugged sleep again.”

Who acts: you, woman, I, life · What happens: like, kill, put, not lift, drug, sleep · To what, where: poison, cup, head, drugged sleep

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman, I, life), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 like	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 put	advcl
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 woman	det
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	nsubj
7	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 put	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 put	aux
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 cup	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cup	nmod:poss
15	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 lift	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lift	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 lift	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 lift	advmod
21	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 put	advcl
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lift	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 sleep	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sleep	nmod:poss
26	drugged	drug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 sleep	amod
27	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lift	obl
28	again	again	ADV	_	21 lift	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	like a condition, not said to happen	would	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	kill	past	this woman				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	put	future	I	poison	life's cup		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent poison=Goal
4	not lift	future	life	life's head	life's drugged sleep	again	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme from sleep=Destination
5	drug	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
6	sleep		life				nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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