The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 14

‘You have killed our father, do you see? do you see?’ cried two young men, ‘and you will come with us this instant before the judge, and answer for it.’

Who acts: you · What happens: kill, see, cry, come, answer · To what, where: You, father, two young men, instant, judge

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	4 killed	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 killed	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 killed	aux
4	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 cried	parataxis
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 killed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 father	acl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 killed	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 men	nummod
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 men	amod
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cried	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
22	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 come	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cried	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 us	case
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 come	obl
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 instant	det
30	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl:unmarked
31	before	before	ADP	_	33 judge	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 judge	det
33	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 answer	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 answer	cc
36	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 cried	parataxis
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 answer	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 answer	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill	present · perfect · passive		You			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer father=Result
2	see	present · do-support	you	our father not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus
3	see	present · do-support	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	cry speech: express	past		two young men			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
5	come	future	you	this instant	the judge	with us	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before judge=Location
6	answer speech: assert	infinitive				for judge	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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