The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 66

He lifted his glittering axe and placed himself in front of the Musician, as much as to say: ‘If you touch a hair of his head, beware, for you will have to answer for it to me.’

Who acts: last, you · What happens: lift, glitter, place, say, touch, beware · To what, where: glittering axe, last, front, hair, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	nsubj
2	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 axe	nmod:poss
4	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 axe	amod
5	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lifted	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 placed	cc
7	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lifted	conj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 placed	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 front	case
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Musician	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Musician	det
13	Musician	Musician	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 front	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 much	punct
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lifted	conj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 say	mark
18	to	to	PART	_	19 say	mark
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 much	acl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 beware	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 beware	punct
22	If	if	SCONJ	_	24 touch	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 touch	nsubj
24	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 beware	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hair	det
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 touch	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 head	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hair	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 touch	punct
31	beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 say	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 have	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 have	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 have	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 have	aux
36	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 beware	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 answer	mark
38	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 have	xcomp
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 answer	obl
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 me	case
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 answer	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lifted	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	past	last	last's glittering axe				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
2	glitter	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	place	past	last not said here	last		front of the Musician		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in front=Destination
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	touch a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a hair of last's head				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hair=Co-Theme
6	beware	infinitive						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	have	future	you					tree rules
8	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here		me		for head	vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-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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