The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 37

‘Bring them to me, however you find them, dead or alive!’ thundered he, ‘for I will have them!

Who acts: you, I · What happens: bring, find, thunder, have · To what, where: Idiots, me, bush

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. 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 Bring	punct
2	Bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thundered	ccomp
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Bring	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Bring	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	9 find	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
9	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Bring	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 find	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dead	punct
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 find	xcomp
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 alive	cc
14	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dead	conj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
17	thundered	thunder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thundered	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 have	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thundered	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 have	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 thundered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bring	infinitive		Idiots = idiot	me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Destination
2	find	present	you	Idiots = idiot		dead, however property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	thunder	past		bush			tree rules
4	have	future	I	Idiots = idiot			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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