The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 53

‘Give me that razor, and I’ll teach him to let people alone for the future.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, teach, let · To what, where: razor, me, man, people

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 razor	det
5	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 teach	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 teach	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 teach	nsubj
9	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 teach	aux
10	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Give	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 teach	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 let	mark
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 teach	xcomp
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 let	obj
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	13 let	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 future	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 future	det
18	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	that razor	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient razor=Theme
2	teach speech: other	future	I		man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	let	to-infinitive	I not said here	people		for the future; alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent people=Theme for future=Asset

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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