The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 40

‘If we stay here till dawn my father will kill thee,’ she whispered, ‘but thou art my husband and I will save thee, as I did before,’ and she cut an apple into nine pieces, and put two pieces at the head of the bed, and two pieces at the foot, and two pieces at the door of the kitchen, and two at the big door, and one outside the house.

Who acts: we, father, bride, I · What happens: stay, kill, whisper, save, do, cut · To what, where: thee, two pieces, apple, nine pieces, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, father, bride, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 kill	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 stay	mark
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 stay	nsubj
4	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kill	advcl
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stay	advmod
6	till	till	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kill	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 kill	aux
11	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 whispered	ccomp
12	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 kill	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kill	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 kill	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 whispered	nsubj
16	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 whispered	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 whispered	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 art	cc
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 art	nsubj
21	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 whispered	conj
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 husband	nmod:poss
23	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 art	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 save	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 save	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 save	aux
27	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 whispered	conj
28	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 save	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 did	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 did	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 did	nsubj
32	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 save	parataxis
33	before	before	ADV	_	32 did	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 before	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 save	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 cut	cc
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 cut	nsubj
38	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 whispered	conj
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 apple	det
40	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cut	obj
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 pieces	case
42	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 pieces	nummod
43	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 cut	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 put	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 put	cc
46	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 whispered	conj
47	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 pieces	nummod
48	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 put	obj
49	at	at	ADP	_	51 head	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 head	det
51	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 put	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 bed	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 bed	det
54	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 head	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 pieces	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 pieces	cc
57	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 pieces	nummod
58	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 whispered	obl
59	at	at	ADP	_	61 foot	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 foot	det
61	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 pieces	nmod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 pieces	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 pieces	cc
64	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	65 pieces	nummod
65	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 pieces	conj
66	at	at	ADP	_	68 door	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 door	det
68	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 pieces	nmod
69	of	of	ADP	_	71 kitchen	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 kitchen	det
71	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 door	nmod
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 two	punct
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 two	cc
74	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	65 pieces	conj
75	at	at	ADP	_	78 door	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	78 door	det
77	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	78 door	amod
78	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 two	nmod
79	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 one	punct
80	and	and	CCONJ	_	81 one	cc
81	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	74 two	conj
82	outside	outside	ADP	_	84 house	case
83	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	84 house	det
84	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 one	nmod
85	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay a condition, not said to happen	present	we		here	dawn		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill	future	my father	thee				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme
3	whisper speech: assert	past	bride	two pieces at the foot and two pieces at the door of the kitchen				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	save	future	I	thee				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme
5	do	past	I				before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cut	past	bride	a apple	nine pieces			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent apple=Material into piece=Product
7	put	infinitive	bride not said here	two pieces	the head of the bed			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme at head=Destination

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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