The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 61

“The honor of saving your life is to be mine,” interrupted Patypata, and, before they could prevent her, she had picked up a knife and cut her head off in an instant.

Who acts: honor, monkey · What happens: save, be, interrupt, prevent, pick up, cut off · To what, where: life, little monkey, Patypata, head, instant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (honor, monkey), 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	_	14 interrupted	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 honor	det
3	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mine	nsubj
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 saving	mark
5	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 honor	acl
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saving	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mine	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	11 mine	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 mine	cop
11	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 interrupted	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mine	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 mine	punct
14	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Patypata	Patypata	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 interrupted	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 picked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 picked	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 and	punct
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 prevent	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 prevent	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 prevent	aux
22	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 picked	advcl
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 prevent	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 prevent	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 picked	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 picked	aux
27	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 interrupted	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 picked	compound:prt
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 knife	det
30	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 picked	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cut	cc
32	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 interrupted	conj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cut	obj
35	off	off	ADP	_	32 cut	compound:prt
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 instant	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 instant	det
38	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cut	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 interrupted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	save in a quote	gerund	the honor not said here	your life		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	the honor	my little monkey = monkey		tree rules
3	interrupt	past		Patypata		tree rules
4	prevent	could	monkey	Patypata		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme
5	pick up	past · perfect · passive		Patypata		tree rules
6	cut off	past		Patypata's head	a instant	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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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