The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 68

Do you want to kill four-and-twenty girls who have never displeased you in any way?”

Who acts: you · What happens: want, kill, not displease · To what, where: four, way, twenty girls

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 want	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 kill	mark
5	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kill	obj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 displeased	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 displeased	cc
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 and	punct
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 girls	nummod
11	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 displeased	nsubj:pass
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 displeased	nsubj:pass
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 displeased	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 displeased	advmod
15	displeased	displease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 four	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 four	appos
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kill	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	four	any way	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Theme
3	not displease	present · perfect · passive		twenty girls		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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