The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 69

Keep her in prison, and feed her on bread and water for a little while, and then, if she still says she will not marry you, have her head cut off, to teach other people that you mean to be obeyed.

Who acts: you, girl, head, other people · What happens: keep, feed, say, not marry, have, cut off · To what, where: girl, prison, bread, you, head, other people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, girl, head, other people), 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	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 prison	case
4	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 feed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 feed	cc
7	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 feed	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 bread	case
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 water	cc
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bread	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 while	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 while	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 while	amod
16	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 marry	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 marry	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 marry	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 then	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 says	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 says	nsubj
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 says	advmod
24	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 marry	advcl
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 marry	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 marry	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 marry	advmod
28	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	conj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 marry	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
31	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	parataxis
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
34	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 have	xcomp
35	off	off	ADP	_	34 cut	compound:prt
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 teach	punct
37	to	to	PART	_	38 teach	mark
38	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	advcl
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 people	amod
40	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 teach	obj
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 mean	nsubj
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 mean	nsubj
43	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 people	acl:relcl
44	to	to	PART	_	46 obeyed	mark
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 obeyed	aux:pass
46	obeyed	obey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 mean	ccomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	girl		prison		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in prison=Location
2	feed	infinitive	you not said here		girl	bread and water	while	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	girl				still	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not marry	future	girl	you			then	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
5	have	present		girl's head				tree rules
6	cut off	participle	girl's head not said here					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here		other people			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
8	mean	present	other people					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	obey not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive						vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»

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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