The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 6

Let him be alive or let him be dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.’

Who acts: you, face, I · What happens: let, be, grind, make · To what, where: face, bones, bread

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, face, 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 be	xcomp
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 let	cc
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 dead	cop
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 let	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grind	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 grind	nsubj
12	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 grind	aux
13	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bones	nmod:poss
15	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grind	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 make	mark
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 grind	advcl
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bread	nmod:poss
19	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	face		tree rules
2	be	infinitive	face not said here		alive property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	infinitive	you not said here	face		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	is	infinitive	face not said here		dead property	tree rules
5	grind	future	I	face's bones		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
6	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	my bread		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bread=Product

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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