The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 193
I mean to make short work with you, and the sword is being sharpened that will cut off your heads!’
Who acts: I · What happens: mean, make, sharpen, cut off · To what, where: short work, sword, 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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 mean | xcomp |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 work | amod |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 make | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sharpened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sharpened | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sword | det |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sharpened | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sharpened | aux:pass |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 sharpened | aux:pass |
| 15 | sharpened | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mean | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 cut | mark |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 cut | aux |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sharpened | advcl |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 cut | compound:prt |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heads | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cut | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 mean | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | short work | with you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset work=Product | |||
| 3 | sharpen | present · passive | the sword | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | cut off | future | your heads | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=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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