The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 22

Both of them were brought to him, and he said, ‘I wonder how you would look if I were to cut the point off your beak.’

Who acts: brother, I, you · What happens: bring, say, wonder, look, cut off · To what, where: Both, brother, point · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, I, you), 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	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 brought	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Both	nmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	aux:pass
5	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wonder	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 wonder	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 wonder	nsubj
15	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 look	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 look	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 look	aux
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wonder	ccomp
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 cut	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 cut	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cut	aux
23	to	to	PART	_	24 cut	mark
24	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 look	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 point	det
26	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cut	obj
27	off	off	ADP	_	24 cut	compound:prt
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 beak	nmod:poss
29	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cut	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	bring	past · passive		Both	brother	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wonder speech: ask	present	I			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	look	would	you			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	cut off a condition, not said to happen	past	I	the point		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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