The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 63

‘For your sake, father, I would cut the devil himself into small bits, or even become a devil myself.

Who acts: I · What happens: cut, become · To what, where: devil, small bits

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 cut	punct
2	For	for	ADP	_	4 sake	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sake	nmod:poss
4	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sake	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sake	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 cut	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	aux
10	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 devil	det
12	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	12 devil	nmod:unmarked
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 bits	case
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bits	amod
16	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cut	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 become	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 become	cc
19	even	even	ADV	_	20 become	advmod
20	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cut	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 devil	det
22	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 become	xcomp
23	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 devil	nmod:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	would	I	the devil devil		small bits		for your sake and father	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent devil=Material for sake=Beneficiary into bit=Product
2	become	infinitive	I not said here	a devil myself					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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