The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 11
“In God’s name! if anyone else had said that to me I should have cut off his head instantly.”
Who acts: God · What happens: say, cut off, name · To what, where: anyone, king, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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 | _ | 18 cut | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 name | case |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 God | case |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 said | mark |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 said | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | else | else | ADV | _ | 8 anyone | advmod |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | aux |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 cut | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 me | mark |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 cut | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 cut | aux |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 cut | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | obj |
| 22 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 18 cut | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 cut | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect · passive | anyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cut off in a quote | should · perfect · passive | the king = king | God's name | instantly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name in a quote | God | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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