The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 81
And when your brother stands safe and well before you, then cut off her head, for she is a wicked woman.’
Who acts: brother, power · What happens: stand, cut off, be · To what, where: head, wicked woman
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, power), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stands | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 stands | advmod |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stands | nsubj |
| 5 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stands | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 you | cc |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 you | advmod |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 safe | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cut | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 cut | advmod |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stands | advcl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cut | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 woman | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 woman | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 woman | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 woman | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 woman | det |
| 22 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 woman | amod |
| 23 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cut | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stands | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | your brother | safe property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cut off | participle | your brother not said here | power's head | then | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is a | present | power | a wicked woman | tree rules |
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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