The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 91

‘Let four of you go and kill him, but first slay the other four who pretended to kill him last night and didn’t because he is still alive.’

Who acts: you, other four, horse · What happens: let, go, kill, slay, pretend, not do · To what, where: four, horse

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 (you, other four, horse), 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 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Let	obj
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 go	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 four	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kill	cc
8	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kill	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slay	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 slay	cc
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 slay	advmod
13	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 four	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 four	amod
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 pretended	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 pretended	nsubj
18	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 slay	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 kill	mark
20	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 pretended	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kill	obj
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 night	amod
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kill	obl:unmarked
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 did	cc
25	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 pretended	conj
26	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 did	advmod
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 alive	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 alive	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 alive	cop
30	still	still	ADV	_	31 alive	advmod
31	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 did	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	four			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Theme
2	go	present	you				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kill	present	you not said here	horse			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	slay	infinitive	you not said here			first property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	pretend	past	the other four				tree rules
6	kill	to-infinitive	the other four not said here	horse	night		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	not do	past	the other four not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	present	horse		still	alive property	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 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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