The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 71
I’ve a good mind to chop off your great head as a punishment.’
Who acts: I · What happens: have, chop off · To what, where: good mind, great head
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ’ve | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mind | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mind | amod |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ’ve | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 chop | mark |
| 7 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ’ve | advcl |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 chop | compound:prt |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 head | amod |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chop | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 punishment | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 punishment | det |
| 14 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chop | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’ve | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’ve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a good mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | chop off | to-infinitive | I not said here | your great head | as a punishment | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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