The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 196

You are pleased to jest about having our heads cut off; perhaps you think we have stolen something from you?’

Who acts: You, heads, we · What happens: be, jest, have, cut off, think, steal · To what, where: heads, something · Speech: someone speaks here

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, heads, we), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pleased	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pleased	cop
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 jest	mark
5	jest	jest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pleased	xcomp
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 having	mark
7	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 jest	advcl
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heads	nmod:poss
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 having	obj
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 having	xcomp
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 cut	compound:prt
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 think	punct
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	15 think	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 think	nsubj
15	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pleased	parataxis
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 stolen	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 stolen	aux
18	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 think	ccomp
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 stolen	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 stolen	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 pleased	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	You		pleased property	tree rules
2	jest speech: other	to-infinitive	You not said here			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	gerund	You not said here	our heads		tree rules
4	cut off	participle	our heads not said here			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	think speech: other	present	you		perhaps property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	steal	present · perfect	we	something	from you	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent something=Theme from you=Source

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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