The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 36

“The first day that I can spare I shall just go back and kill her,” he said; “it would never do for people in the forest to know that a mere girl can defy me!”

Who acts: first day, giant, door, mere girl · What happens: spare, go back, kill, say, not do, know · To what, where: Kisa, forest, giant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first day, giant, door, mere girl), 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	_	12 go	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl:unmarked
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 spare	nsubj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 spare	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 spare	aux
8	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 day	acl:relcl
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
10	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 kill	cc
15	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kill	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 do	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 do	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 do	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	aux
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 do	advmod
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 people	case
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 do	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 forest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 forest	det
31	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 do	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 know	mark
33	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 do	advcl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 defy	mark
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 girl	det
36	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 girl	amod
37	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 defy	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 defy	aux
39	defy	defy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 know	ccomp
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 defy	obj
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 defy	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	39 defy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare in a quote	can	the first day					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent
2	go back in a quote	shall	giant			day		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	kill in a quote	infinitive	giant not said here	Kisa				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	say speech: express	past	giant					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not do in a quote	would	door		the forest		for people	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	know in a quote	to-infinitive	door not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	defy in a quote	can	a mere girl	giant				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 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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