The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 67

Then, after making the princess show him the golden curl which she wore round her neck, he added: ‘Listen to me; unless by some means or other you bring me the owner of this lock, I will have your head cut off in the place where you stand.

Who acts: golden curl, two, some, other, I, head · What happens: make, show, wear, add, listen, mean · To what, where: princess, golden curl, two, me, owner, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden curl, two, some, other), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 show	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	4 making	mark
4	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 show	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	obj
7	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 show	iobj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 curl	det
10	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 curl	amod
11	curl	curl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 show	obj
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 wore	nsubj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wore	nsubj
14	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 curl	acl:relcl
15	round	round	ADP	_	17 neck	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 neck	nmod:poss
17	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wore	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 added	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 added	nsubj
20	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 show	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Listen	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Listen	punct
23	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 added	ccomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 Listen	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 means	punct
27	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	30 means	mark
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 some	case
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 means	nsubj
30	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 show	parataxis
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 bring	cc
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bring	nsubj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 bring	nsubj
34	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 means	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 bring	iobj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 owner	det
37	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bring	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 lock	case
39	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 lock	det
40	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 owner	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 have	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 have	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 have	aux
44	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 bring	parataxis
45	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 head	nmod:poss
46	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 have	obj
47	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 have	xcomp
48	off	off	ADP	_	47 cut	compound:prt
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 place	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 place	det
51	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 cut	obl
52	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	54 stand	advmod
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 stand	nsubj
54	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 place	acl:relcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		the princess					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset princess=Product
2	show	present		the golden curl	two		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient curl=Topic
3	wear	past	the golden curl					round princess's neck	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
4	add speech: assert	past	two						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	listen	infinitive			me				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
6	mean a condition, not said to happen	present	some						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	bring	present	other	the owner of this lock	me				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination owner=Theme
8	have	future	I	your head					tree rules
9	cut off	participle	your head not said here			the place			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
10	stand	present	you						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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