The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 88

‘If you cut down the pumpkin you shall cut off my hand with it,’ exclaimed the girl, running up to her tree and catching hold of it.

Who acts: you · What happens: cut down, cut off, exclaim, run up, catch, hold · To what, where: pumpkin, hand, girl, hold · Speech: someone speaks here

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	_	10 cut	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 cut	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	advcl
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 cut	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pumpkin	det
7	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 cut	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	aux
10	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 exclaimed	ccomp
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 cut	compound:prt
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hand	nmod:poss
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cut	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cut	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 cut	punct
18	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 girl	det
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 exclaimed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 running	punct
22	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 exclaimed	advcl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 running	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 tree	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 tree	nmod:poss
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 running	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 catching	cc
28	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 running	conj
29	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 catching	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hold	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut down a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the pumpkin		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pumpkin=Product
2	cut off	shall	you	my hand	with hand	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hand=Eventuality
3	exclaim speech: express	past		the girl		tree rules
4	run up	gerund			to Girl's tree result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result
5	catch	gerund		hold of hand		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
6	hold			hand		nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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