The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 59

‘No, father; you may cut off my head, if you choose, but marry that horrible beggar--I never will!’

Who acts: you · What happens: cut off, choose, marry · To what, where: head, horrible beggar

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 father	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 cut	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 cut	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	aux
8	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 father	appos
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 cut	compound:prt
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 choose	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 choose	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 choose	nsubj
15	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 marry	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 marry	cc
18	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cut	conj
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 beggar	det
20	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 beggar	amod
21	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 marry	obj
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 will	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 will	nsubj
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 will	advmod
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	advcl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 will	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cut off	may	you	my head	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
2	choose a condition, not said to happen	present	you		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	marry	infinitive	you not said here	that horrible beggar	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=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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