The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 55

‘What a hard lot yours must have been to make you hang yourself!’ said he.

Who acts: man · What happens: have, be, hang, say · To what, where: yourself, hard lot · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man), 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	_	17 said	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 lot	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lot	amod
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl:unmarked
6	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 said	ccomp
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 yours	parataxis
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 make	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 have	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	xcomp
14	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 hang	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 hang	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	must				tree rules
2	is	participle			make property	tree rules
3	hang	infinitive		yourself		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	man	what hard lot		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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