The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 16

How could they when they knew that any of them might have cut off his head five or six times a day just to please her, and she would have thought it a mere trifle, so little did she care?

Who acts: bonfires, Bellissima · What happens: know, cut off, please, think, care · To what, where: any, Bellissima, entertainment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (bonfires, Bellissima), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 knew	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	nsubj
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 knew	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 cut	mark
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 cut	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 any	nmod
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cut	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 cut	aux
13	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 knew	advcl
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 cut	compound:prt
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 five	compound
17	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 times	nummod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 six	cc
19	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 five	conj
20	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cut	obl:unmarked
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 times	nmod:unmarked
23	just	just	ADV	_	25 please	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 please	mark
25	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cut	advcl
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 please	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 thought	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 thought	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 thought	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 thought	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 thought	aux
32	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 knew	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 thought	obj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 trifle	det
35	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 trifle	amod
36	trifle	trifle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thought	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 care	punct
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 little	advmod
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 care	advmod
40	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 care	aux
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 care	nsubj
42	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 thought	ccomp
43	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	know	could	bonfires = bonfire			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	cut off	might · perfect · passive		any	time	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
3	please	to-infinitive		Bellissima		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
4	think speech: other	would · perfect	Bellissima	entertainment		tree rules
5	care	past · do-support	Bellissima			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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