The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 58

But the King of the Snakes answered, ‘When you go home, you will do me evil!’

Who acts: King, you · What happens: answer, go, do · To what, where: evil, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Snakes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Snakes	det
6	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 King	nmod
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
10	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 go	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 do	advcl
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 do	iobj
19	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the King of the Snakes				tree rules
2	go	present	you			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	future	you	evil	me		tree rules

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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