The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 6
They will kill you, and strip it from you.”
Who acts: weddings · What happens: kill, strip · To what, where: you, skin
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weddings), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 kill | aux |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 strip | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 strip | cc |
| 7 | strip | strip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kill | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 strip | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 strip | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | future | weddings = wedding | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strip | infinitive | weddings = wedding not said here | skin | from you | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from you=Source |
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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