The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 124

‘Kill me, any way you like!

Who acts: you · What happens: kill, like · To what, where: me, way

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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), 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 Kill	punct
2	Kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Kill	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Kill	obl:unmarked
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
8	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	acl:relcl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	imperative	you not said here	me				any way obl:unmarked	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	like	present	you	any way not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=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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