The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 106

‘And kill him with one bite!’ murmured Aina.

What happens: kill, murmur · To what, where: Worm, Aina · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	3 kill	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 kill	cc
3	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 murmured	ccomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kill	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 bite	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 bite	nummod
7	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kill	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 kill	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 kill	punct
10	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Aina	Aina	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 murmured	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 murmured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	infinitive		Worm				with one bite	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with bite=Instrument
2	murmur speech: other	past		Aina					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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