The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 47

‘I will die!’ cried he, ‘or he shall have my bridle over his head.’

Who acts: I, Petru · What happens: die, cry, have · To what, where: bridle, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (I, Petru), 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	_	4 die	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 die	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
10	‘	‘	SYM	_	11 or	cc
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	parataxis
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bridle	nmod:poss
16	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 head	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	die	future	I			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	cry speech: express	past	Petru			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	shall	Petru	my bridle	Petru's head	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=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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