The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 15

‘Oh, dear little mother, they are going to slaughter you!’

Who acts: man · What happens: go, slaughter · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	_	10 going	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 going	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Oh	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 going	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 slaughter	mark
12	slaughter	slaughter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 going	xcomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 slaughter	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	man						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	slaughter	to-infinitive	man not said here	you					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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