The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 14

The robber-girl looked at her very seriously, and nodded her head, saying, ‘They shall not kill you, even if you are naughty, for then I will kill you myself!’

Who acts: robber girl, arms, you, I · What happens: look, nod, say, not kill, be, kill · To what, where: head, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robber girl, arms, you, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
2	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girl	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 robber	punct
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 seriously	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 seriously	nmod:poss
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 seriously	advmod
9	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	5 looked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nodded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nodded	cc
12	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nodded	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saying	punct
16	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 nodded	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kill	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 kill	punct
19	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 kill	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 kill	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 kill	advmod
22	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 saying	ccomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 kill	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 naughty	punct
25	even	even	ADV	_	29 naughty	advmod
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 naughty	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 naughty	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 naughty	cop
29	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 kill	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 kill	punct
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 then	case
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 kill	obl
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 kill	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 kill	aux
35	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 naughty	conj
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 kill	obj
37	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	35 kill	obl:unmarked
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 kill	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	the robber girl			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at seriously=Theme
2	nod	past	the robber girl not said here	girl's head		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the robber girl not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not kill	shall	arms = arm	you		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you		naughty property	tree rules
6	kill	future	I	you	myself obl:unmarked	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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