The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 36

The dove then spoke for the first time and said, ‘Take that knife and cut off my head, but be careful that not a single drop of blood falls to the ground.

Who acts: dove, single drop · What happens: speak, say, take, cut off, be, fall · To what, where: knife, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dove, single drop), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dove	det
2	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 spoke	advmod
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Take	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Take	punct
13	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 knife	det
15	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Take	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cut	cc
17	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 Take	conj
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 cut	compound:prt
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cut	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 careful	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 careful	cc
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 careful	cop
24	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Take	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 falls	mark
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 drop	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 drop	det
28	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 drop	amod
29	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 falls	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 blood	case
31	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drop	nmod
32	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 careful	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 ground	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ground	det
35	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 falls	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the dove		then; time		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the dove not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	infinitive		that knife			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
4	cut off	participle		my head			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
5	is	infinitive				careful property	tree rules
6	fall	present	a single drop of blood			to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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