The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 59

‘Shame on you to strike me!’ said Minnikin.

Who acts: Shame · What happens: strike, say · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (Shame), 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 Shame	punct
2	Shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Shame	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 strike	mark
6	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Shame	acl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 strike	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Shame	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Shame	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	to-infinitive	Shame on you not said here	me					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument
2	say speech: assert	past	Shame on you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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