The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 81

‘Woe betide me,’ he cried, ‘if I would not hang them all if I could catch them, and such as I have I will hang.’

Who acts: Woe, I · What happens: betide, cry, not hang, catch, have, hang · To what, where: me, clasps

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woe, 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	_	3 betide	punct
2	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 betide	nsubj
3	betide	betide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	parataxis
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 betide	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 betide	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 betide	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hang	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 hang	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 hang	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 hang	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hang	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 hang	advmod
15	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hang	obj
17	all	all	ADV	_	21 catch	advmod
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 catch	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 catch	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 catch	aux
21	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hang	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 catch	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	28 have	case
26	as	as	ADP	_	25 such	fixed
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 hang	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 hang	aux
31	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 have	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	betide	infinitive	Woe	me		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	Woe			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not hang a condition, not said to happen	would	I	clasps = clasp		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	catch a condition, not said to happen	could	I	clasps = clasp	all property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	have	present	I			tree rules
6	hang	future	I			vn assuming_position-50 «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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