The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 10

“Ah!” cried his wife; “and canst thou thyself have the heart to take thy children out along with thee on purpose to lose them?”

Who acts: wife, thyself, heart · What happens: cry, have, take out, lose · To what, where: heart, children, purpose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, thyself, heart), 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	_	5 cried	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 canst	cc
11	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 canst	nsubj
13	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heart	det
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 take	mark
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	xcomp
19	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 children	nmod:poss
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 take	obj
21	out	out	ADV	_	18 take	advmod
22	along	along	ADP	_	24 thee	case
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 thee	case
24	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 take	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 purpose	case
26	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 lose	mark
28	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lose	obj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	scarce's wife				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have in a quote	can	thyself	the heart			tree rules
3	take out in a quote	to-infinitive	the heart not said here	thy children	purpose	along thee; out property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	lose in a quote	to-infinitive	the heart not said here	children = child			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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