The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 80
‘Either the pasty must be made properly to-morrow or this rascal’s head shall come off.
Who acts: head · What happens: make, come off · To what, where: pasty
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 (head), 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 | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 2 | Either | either | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc:preconj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pasty | det |
| 4 | pasty | pasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 7 made | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 morrow | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 properly | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 come | cc |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 rascal | det |
| 14 | rascal | rascal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 rascal | case |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 come | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | must · passive | the pasty | properly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | come off | shall | this rascal's head | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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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