The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 63

‘Just let her!’ cried the boy, ‘I would put her on the stove, and melt her!’

Who acts: you, boy, I · What happens: let, cry, put, melt · To what, where: girl, stove

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boy, 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	_	3 let	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 put	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 put	aux
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 stove	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stove	det
18	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 melt	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 melt	cc
21	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 melt	obj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	girl		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	the boy			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put	would	I	girl	the stove	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on stove=Destination
4	melt	infinitive	you not said here	girl		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient she=Result

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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