The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 127
I will cut you to bits.’
Who acts: I · What happens: cut · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | aux |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bits | case |
| 6 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cut | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | future | I | you | to bits result | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient to bit=Result |
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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