The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 20

I’ll break every bone in your body!’

Who acts: I · What happens: break · To what, where: bone, body

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 break	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 break	aux
3	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bone	det
5	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 break	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 body	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 body	nmod:poss
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 break	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 break	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 break	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	future	I	every bone		your body			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient

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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