The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 238

‘See, I will cut this apple in half.

Who acts: I · What happens: cut · To what, where: apple, half

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 (I), 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	_	6 cut	punct
2	See	see	INTJ	_	6 cut	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 cut	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	aux
6	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 apple	det
8	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 half	case
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 cut	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	future	I	this apple		half			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Product

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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