The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 6

‘Squeeze too tight And I’ll bite, If my neck a twist you gave I’d bring you to an early grave.’

Who acts: I, you, neck · What happens: bite, give, have, bring · To what, where: twist, you, early grave

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (I, you, neck), 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 tight	punct
2	Squeeze	squeeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tight	nsubj
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tight	advmod
4	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 bite	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 bite	nsubj
7	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bite	aux
8	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tight	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ’d	punct
10	If	if	SCONJ	_	18 ’d	mark
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 neck	nmod:poss
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ’d	nsubj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 twist	det
14	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ’d	nsubj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 twist	acl:relcl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 ’d	nsubj
18	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tight	conj
19	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ’d	xcomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 bring	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 grave	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 grave	det
23	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grave	amod
24	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bring	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tight	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bite	future	I			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	you	a twist not said here		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=Theme
3	have	past	my neck			tree rules
4	bring	infinitive	my neck not said here	you	a early grave	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to grave=Destination

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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