The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 86

She was to kill the lion herself and cut him up very small; then she must burn him, and cast his ashes into the water, and out of the water the prince would come free from enchantment for ever.

Who acts: giant, prince · What happens: be, cut up, burn, cast, come · To what, where: prince, ashes, water

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, prince), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kill	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	cop
3	to	to	PART	_	4 kill	mark
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	obj
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 kill	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cut	cc
9	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kill	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cut	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 cut	compound:prt
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 small	advmod
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cut	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 burn	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 burn	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 burn	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 burn	aux
18	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kill	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 burn	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cast	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cast	cc
22	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 burn	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ashes	nmod:poss
24	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cast	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cast	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 come	cc
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 water	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 water	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 water	det
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	obl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 prince	det
35	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kill	conj
38	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 come	xcomp
39	from	from	ADP	_	40 enchantment	case
40	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	obl
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 ever	case
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 come	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	giant				giant obl; kill property	tree rules
2	cut up	infinitive	giant not said here	prince			small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
3	burn	must	giant	prince		then		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	cast	past	giant not said here	prince's ashes	the water			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent ash=Material into water=Product
5	come	would	the prince		the water		from enchantment; free property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out water=Initial_Location from enchantment=Destination

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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