The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 27

‘When once they have taken my life they will soon kill you also,’ said the Bull.

Who acts: people · What happens: take, kill, say · To what, where: life, you, Bull · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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	_	12 kill	punct
2	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 taken	mark
3	once	once	SCONJ	_	6 taken	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 taken	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 kill	advcl
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 life	nmod:poss
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kill	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 kill	aux
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 kill	advmod
12	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 kill	obj
14	also	also	ADV	_	12 kill	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kill	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 kill	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Bull	det
19	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	present · perfect	people	my life		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
2	kill	future	people	you	soon property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		the Bull		tree rules

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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