The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 252

‘To-day is the last day of the respite granted to those impostors; they shall have their heads cut off at the same time as these stealers of my dinner.’

Who acts: King · What happens: be, grant, have, cut off · To what, where: last day, respite, impostors, 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 (King), 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	_	8 day	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	4 day	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 To	punct
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 day	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 respite	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 respite	det
11	respite	respite	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	nmod
12	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 respite	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 impostors	case
14	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 impostors	det
15	impostors	impostor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 granted	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 day	parataxis
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 heads	nmod:poss
21	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	obj
22	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 heads	acl
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 cut	compound:prt
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 time	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 time	amod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cut	obl
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 stealers	case
29	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 stealers	det
30	stealers	stealer	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cut	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 dinner	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 dinner	nmod:poss
33	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stealers	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the last day	day	of the respite	tree rules
2	grant	participle		the respite not said here		to that impostors goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to impostor=Goal
3	have	shall	King	King's heads			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	cut off	participle		King's heads not said here	time	as this stealers of my dinner	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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