The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 44

My father longs to see you dead, and thinks he will kill you by this means.

Who acts: father, this · What happens: long, see, think, kill, mean · To what, where: you · 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 (father, this), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 longs	nsubj
3	longs	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 longs	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 see	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thinks	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thinks	cc
10	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 longs	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kill	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 kill	aux
13	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thinks	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 kill	obj
15	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 means	mark
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 means	nsubj
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 kill	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 longs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	long	present	My father			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	My father not said here	you	dead property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	present	My father not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	kill	future	father	you		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	mean	present	this			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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