The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 89

‘Bring him here, and I’ll cut his throat! bring him here quick!’ cried he.

Who acts: I, Drakestail · What happens: bring, cut, cry · To what, where: Drakestail, throat

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Drakestail), 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 Bring	punct
2	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 cried	parataxis
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Bring	obj
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Bring	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cut	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 cut	nsubj
8	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	aux
9	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Bring	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 throat	nmod:poss
11	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
13	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Bring	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bring	obj
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 bring	advmod
16	quick	quick	ADV	_	13 bring	advmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cried	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	infinitive			Drakestail	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	cut	future	I	Drakestail's throat				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=Product
3	bring	infinitive			Drakestail	here	quick property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
4	cry speech: express	past	Drakestail					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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