The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 183

I will give you a bushel of money, and will bury your grandmother as if she were my own; only don’t tell about it, or I shall have my head cut off, and that would be very uncomfortable.’

Who acts: I, grandmother, head, that · What happens: give, bury, be, not tell, have, cut off · To what, where: bushel, you, grandmother, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, grandmother, head, that), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bushel	det
6	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 money	case
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bushel	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bury	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bury	cc
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 bury	aux
12	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	conj
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 grandmother	nmod:poss
14	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bury	obj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 own	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 own	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 own	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 own	cop
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 own	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bury	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
22	only	only	ADV	_	25 tell	advmod
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	aux
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 tell	advmod
25	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 give	parataxis
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tell	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 have	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 have	nsubj
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 have	aux
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tell	conj
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
35	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 have	xcomp
36	off	off	ADP	_	35 cut	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 uncomfortable	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 uncomfortable	cc
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 uncomfortable	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 uncomfortable	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 uncomfortable	cop
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 uncomfortable	advmod
43	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tell	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	future	I	a bushel of money	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bushel=Theme
2	bury	future	I not said here	your grandmother			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme
3	is	past	grandmother			own property	tree rules
4	not tell speech: assert	infinitive · do-support				about money	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
5	have	shall	I	my head			tree rules
6	cut off	participle	my head not said here				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	is	would	that			uncomfortable property	tree rules

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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