The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 31

His wife screamed back: ‘You come here, and I’ll give you a good thrashing with the poker!’

Who acts: wife, You, I · What happens: scream back, come, give · To what, where: good thrashing, you

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 screamed	nsubj
3	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 screamed	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
7	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 screamed	parataxis
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 come	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 give	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
13	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 thrashing	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thrashing	amod
18	thrashing	thrashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 poker	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 poker	det
21	poker	poker	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 screamed	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 screamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	scream back speech: express	past	man's wife					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	present	You			here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	future	I	a good thrashing	you		with the poker	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thrashing=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 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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