The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 52

‘Well, well,’ he said at last, ‘have your way and cut down the trees; but out of one they shall make a bed for me, and out of the other, one for you!’

Who acts: emperor, trees · What happens: say, have, cut down, make · To what, where: last, way, trees, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, trees), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	8 said	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cut	cc
17	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 have	conj
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 cut	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trees	det
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cut	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 make	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 make	cc
23	out	out	ADP	_	25 one	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 one	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 make	obl
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 make	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 make	aux
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bed	det
30	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 make	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 one	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 one	cc
35	out	out	ADP	_	38 other	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 other	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 other	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 one	amod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 other	punct
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 said	ccomp
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 you	case
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 one	nmod
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	emperor		last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	infinitive		your way			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
3	cut down	participle		the trees			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product
4	make	shall	trees = tree	a bed		out one; for me	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bed=Material for i=Beneficiary

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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