The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 11
‘We will first kill him, and then cook him.’
Who acts: We · What happens: kill, cook · To what, where: peasant
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 kill | aux |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 kill | advmod |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cook | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cook | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 cook | advmod |
| 10 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kill | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cook | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | future | We | peasant | first property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | cook | infinitive | We not said here | peasant | then | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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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