The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 92

‘You richly deserve death,’ said he, ‘but I will allow you to live if you will instantly hand over to me the coverlet, the purse, and the horn.’

Who acts: You, Ciccu, I · What happens: deserve, say, allow, live, hand over · To what, where: death, you, coverlet, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Ciccu, 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	_	4 deserve	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 deserve	nsubj
3	richly	richly	ADV	_	4 deserve	advmod
4	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deserve	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 deserve	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 deserve	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 he	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 he	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 allow	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 allow	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 allow	aux
15	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 allow	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 live	mark
18	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 allow	xcomp
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 hand	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 hand	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 hand	aux
22	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	23 hand	advmod
23	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 live	advcl
24	over	over	ADP	_	23 hand	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hand	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 coverlet	det
28	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hand	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 purse	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 purse	det
31	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 coverlet	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 horn	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 horn	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 horn	det
35	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 horn	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 horn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	deserve	present	You	death		richly property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Ciccu				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	allow	future	I		you		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	live not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hand over a condition, not said to happen	future	you	the coverlet and the purse	me	instantly property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coverlet=Theme to i=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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