The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 78
Well, to-morrow we will make her a muff of your skin, and you yourself shall be crunched, for we will give your carcass to the dogs.’
Who acts: we · What happens: make, crunch, give · To what, where: muff, brigand, you, carcass, dogs
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 make | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 morrow | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 to | punct |
| 5 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obl |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 make | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 muff | det |
| 11 | muff | muff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 skin | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 skin | nmod:poss |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 muff | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crunched | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 crunched | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 crunched | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 you | nmod |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 crunched | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 crunched | aux:pass |
| 21 | crunched | crunch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 make | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 give | mark |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 give | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 give | aux |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 crunched | conj |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 carcass | nmod:poss |
| 28 | carcass | carcass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 dogs | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dogs | det |
| 31 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 give | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | we | a muff of your skin | brigand | to morrow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary muff=Product | ||
| 2 | crunch | shall · passive | you | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | give | future | we | your carcass | the dogs | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent carcass=Theme to dog=Recipient |
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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