The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 49

‘Miserable wretches!’ cried the Prince; ‘but for the presence of that lovely portrait I would cut off your heads.’

Who acts: Miserable wretches, I · What happens: cry, cut off · To what, where: Prince, heads

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (Miserable wretches, 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	_	6 cried	punct
2	Miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wretches	amod
3	wretches	wretch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 wretches	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wretches	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 cut	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 cut	cc
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 presence	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 presence	det
14	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cut	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 portrait	case
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 portrait	det
17	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 portrait	amod
18	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 presence	nmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 cut	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 cut	aux
21	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	parataxis
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 cut	compound:prt
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heads	nmod:poss
24	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cut	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 cut	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Miserable wretches	the Prince					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic
2	cut off	would	I	your heads				for the presence of that lovely portrait	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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