The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 107

With a second, split its head in two, and in its brain you will see a bright red ball.

Who acts: you · What happens: split, see · To what, where: head, two, bright red ball, brain

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 second	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 second	det
3	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 split	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 second	punct
5	split	split	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 split	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 two	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 split	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 brain	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brain	nmod:poss
14	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 split	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ball	det
19	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ball	amod
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ball	amod
21	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 split	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	imperative	you not said here	blow's head		two	second		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	see	future	you	a bright red ball		blow's brain			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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