The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 101

‘Then if you do not want us to avenge our dead flocks and our murdered wives, you will have to throw us into the river just over the place of the horse fair.’

Who acts: you, us · What happens: not want, avenge, murder, have, throw · To what, where: us, dead flocks, river

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), 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	_	7 want	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 want	advmod
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 want	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 want	advmod
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 want	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 avenge	mark
10	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 flocks	nmod:poss
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flocks	amod
13	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 avenge	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wives	cc
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wives	nmod:poss
16	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 wives	amod
17	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 flocks	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 throw	mark
23	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 have	xcomp
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 throw	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 river	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 river	det
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 throw	obl
28	just	just	ADV	_	31 place	advmod
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 place	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 place	det
31	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 throw	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 fair	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fair	det
34	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fair	compound
35	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 place	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not want	present · do-support	you	us	then		tree rules
2	avenge not said to happen	to-infinitive	us not said here	our dead flocks and our murdered wives			tree rules
3	murder	participle					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	future	you				tree rules
5	throw	to-infinitive	you not said here	us		into the river result; over the place of the horse fair	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer we=Theme into river=Result

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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