The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 60

‘Leave off,’ shouted Moti, seizing his staff; ‘if you don’t let my horse alone I’ll crack your skulls! you thieves!

Who acts: you, I · What happens: leave off, shout, seize, not let, crack · To what, where: you, Moti, staff, horse, skulls

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 Leave	punct
2	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 Leave	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
6	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Leave	conj
7	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shouted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seizing	punct
9	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 shouted	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 staff	nmod:poss
11	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seizing	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 let	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 let	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 let	aux
17	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 let	advmod
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Leave	conj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 horse	nmod:poss
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 let	obj
21	alone	alone	ADV	_	18 let	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 crack	nsubj
23	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 crack	aux
24	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 skulls	nmod:poss
26	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 crack	obj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Leave	obj
29	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Leave	obj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave off	imperative	you not said here	you		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme thief=Attribute
2	shout speech: express	past	you not said here	Moti		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moti=Topic
3	seize	gerund	you not said here	Moti's staff		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Theme
4	not let a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you	my horse	alone property	tree rules
5	crack	future	I	your skulls		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skull=Theme

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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