The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 67

If I were to cut you and your horse up into tiny morsels and throw them to the beasts, there wouldn’t be one bit for each hundred of them.

Who acts: I, one bit · What happens: cut up, throw, not be · To what, where: you, tiny morsels, morsels, beasts

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one bit), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 cut	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 cut	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cut	mark
5	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 be	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 cut	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 horse	cc
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 horse	nmod:poss
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 you	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	5 cut	compound:prt
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 morsels	case
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 morsels	amod
13	morsels	morsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cut	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 throw	cc
15	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cut	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 throw	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 beasts	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 beasts	det
19	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 throw	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 be	expl
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 be	aux
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 be	advmod
24	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 bit	nummod
26	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 be	nsubj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 hundred	case
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 hundred	det
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 bit	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hundred	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cut up a condition, not said to happen	past	I	you	tiny morsels	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent you=Material into morsel=Product
2	throw	infinitive	I not said here	morsels = morsel	the beasts	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme to beast=Destination
3	not be	would	one bit for each hundred of beasts		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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