The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 52

“Lay a finger on him, and I shall be dead before sunset,” said she; and as they saw that she meant it, they left the palace, and carried the tale to her father.

Who acts: princess, youth · What happens: lay, be, say, see, mean, leave · To what, where: finger, palace, tale, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, youth), 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	_	2 Lay	punct
2	Lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 finger	det
4	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Lay	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Lay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dead	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dead	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 dead	nsubj
10	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 dead	cop
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Lay	advcl
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 sunset	case
14	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dead	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Lay	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lay	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 saw	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 meant	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 meant	nsubj
26	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saw	ccomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 meant	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 left	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 left	nsubj
30	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saw	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 palace	det
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 left	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 carried	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 carried	cc
35	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saw	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tale	det
37	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 carried	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 father	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 father	nmod:poss
40	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 carried	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay in a quote	infinitive		a finger			on king	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme on he=Destination
2	is in a quote	shall	princess			sunset	dead property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	princess					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	past	youth					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	mean	past	princess	finger				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
6	leave	past	youth	the palace				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
7	carry	past	youth not said here	the tale	princess's father			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tale=Theme to father=Destination

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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