The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 118

The merchant started, and exclaimed: “If there were not brotherly affection between us, I would cut off your head for asking me this!”

Who acts: merchant · What happens: start, exclaim, be, cut off, ask · To what, where: brotherly affection, head, this, merchant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 started	nsubj
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 exclaimed	cc
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 started	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 affection	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 affection	punct
9	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 were	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 were	expl
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 affection	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 brotherly	advmod
13	brotherly	brotherly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 affection	amod
14	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	obl
15	between	between	ADP	_	16 us	case
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 affection	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 cut	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 cut	aux
20	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 started	parataxis
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 cut	compound:prt
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cut	obj
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 asking	mark
25	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 cut	advcl
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 asking	iobj
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 asking	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	start	past	the merchant				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	exclaim speech: express	past	the merchant not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	past		brotherly affection		between us	tree rules
4	cut off in a quote	would	the merchant = merchant	your head			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	gerund	the merchant = merchant not said here	this	the merchant = merchant		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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