The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 87

‘You old wretch! tell me what you have done with my brother, or I will cut your head off this very instant.’

Who acts: You, old wretch, I · What happens: wretch, tell, do, cut · To what, where: me, head · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, old wretch, 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 tell	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 wretch	nsubj
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wretch	amod
4	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 wretch	punct
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 done	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 done	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 tell	ccomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 brother	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brother	nmod:poss
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 done	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 cut	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 cut	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	aux
19	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	advcl
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	obj
22	off	off	ADP	_	23 this	case
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 cut	obl
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 instant	advmod
25	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cut	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wretch		You				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	old wretch		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	present · perfect	you			with my brother	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	cut	future	I	your head		off this	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient off this=Co-Patient

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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