The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 153

‘If you don’t bring me something to eat I will have all your heads cut off!’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: not bring, eat, have, cut off · To what, where: something, me, heads

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	_	6 bring	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 bring	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 bring	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bring	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 bring	advmod
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bring	obj
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 bring	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 something	acl
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 eat	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 heads	det:predet
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heads	nmod:poss
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	obj
17	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 heads	acl
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 cut	compound:prt
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not bring	present · do-support	you	something	me	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination something=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	you not said here	something not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	future	I	your heads		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	cut off	participle		your heads not said here		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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