The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 121
You must kill her, and bring me back her lungs and liver, that I may know for certain she is dead.’
Who acts: You, I, Queen · What happens: kill, bring back, know, be · To what, where: Queen, lungs, me, certain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, Queen), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 kill | aux |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bring | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bring | cc |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kill | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 bring | advmod |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lungs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bring | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 liver | cc |
| 13 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lungs | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 know | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bring | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 certain | case |
| 20 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 know | obj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dead | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 dead | cop |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 certain | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | must | You | Queen | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring back | infinitive | You not said here | Queen's lungs and liver | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination lung=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | may | I | certain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer certain=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Queen | dead property | 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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