The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 47

‘Would you like me to watch for the Wolf, and split his skull with a blow from my axe?’

Who acts: you · What happens: like, watch, split · To what, where: me, skull, axe

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	4 like	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 watch	mark
7	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 Wolf	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Wolf	det
10	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 watch	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 split	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 split	cc
13	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 skull	nmod:poss
15	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 split	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 blow	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 blow	det
18	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 split	obl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 axe	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 axe	nmod:poss
21	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 split	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	like	would	you	me			tree rules
2	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			for the Wolf	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for wolf=Theme
3	split	past	you not said here	Guilbert's skull	my axe	with a blow	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent skull=Patient with blow=Instrument

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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