The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 64

‘Tell me at once what you want to do with it, or I will draw my sword, and cut off your head!’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, want, do, draw, cut off · To what, where: me, sword, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 what	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 what	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 Tell	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 draw	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 draw	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 draw	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 draw	aux
17	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	conj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sword	nmod:poss
19	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 draw	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cut	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cut	cc
22	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	advcl
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 cut	compound:prt
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cut	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	want	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			with box	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	draw	future	I	my sword			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
5	cut off	infinitive	you not said here	your head			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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