The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 18

Then strike it off also, and so go on till you have cut off all his seven heads.’

Who acts: you · What happens: strike off, go, cut off · To what, where: head, seven heads

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 strike	advmod
2	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 strike	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 strike	compound:prt
5	also	also	ADV	_	2 strike	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 go	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 strike	parataxis
10	on	on	SCONJ	_	14 cut	mark
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 cut	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 cut	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cut	aux
14	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 go	advcl
15	off	off	ADP	_	19 heads	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 heads	det:predet
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 heads	nmod:poss
18	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 heads	nummod
19	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cut	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 strike	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 strike	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	strike off	imperative	you not said here	head	then	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	go	infinitive				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cut off	present · perfect	you	monster's seven heads		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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