The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 231

‘Now I’ll just shoot him, that I will!’

Who acts: I · What happens: shoot · To what, where: Governor

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. 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 shoot	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 shoot	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 shoot	nsubj
4	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 shoot	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 shoot	advmod
6	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shoot	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 will	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 will	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 will	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 shoot	advcl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 shoot	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 shoot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	future	I	Governor			now		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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