The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 94

“You have certainly been talking with my Master-maid!” said the giant, “and if you have I will wring your neck.”

Who acts: You, I · What happens: talk, say, have, wring · To what, where: giant, neck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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	_	6 talking	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 talking	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 talking	aux
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 talking	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 talking	aux
6	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 maid	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 maid	nmod:poss
9	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 maid	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Master	punct
11	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talking	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 talking	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 talking	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 giant	det
16	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wring	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 wring	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wring	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 have	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 wring	advcl
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 wring	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 wring	aux
25	wring	wring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 neck	nmod:poss
27	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wring	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 wring	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 wring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	You		with my Master maid; certainly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with maid=Co-Agent
2	say speech: express	past		the giant		tree rules
3	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	wring in a quote	future	I	your neck		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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