The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 57

It rests with me to have your head cut off, or to condemn you to pass the remainder of your life in prison; but I desire to be as good to you as you have been wicked to me.’

Who acts: favour, head, I, you · What happens: rest, have, cut off, condemn, pass, desire · To what, where: head, you, remainder, prison, me

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (favour, head, I, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rests	nsubj
2	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 rests	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rests	advcl
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 have	xcomp
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 cut	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 condemn	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 condemn	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 condemn	mark
14	condemn	condemn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 condemn	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 pass	mark
17	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 condemn	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 remainder	det
19	remainder	remainder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pass	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 life	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remainder	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 prison	case
24	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pass	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 desire	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 desire	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 desire	nsubj
28	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 rests	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	32 good	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 good	cop
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 good	advmod
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 desire	ccomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 you	case
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 good	obl
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 wicked	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 wicked	nsubj
37	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 wicked	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 wicked	cop
39	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 desire	advcl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 me	case
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 wicked	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rests	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 rests	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	present	favour				with me	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	to-infinitive	favour not said here	your head				tree rules
3	cut off	participle	your head not said here					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	condemn	to-infinitive	favour not said here	you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	pass	to-infinitive	favour not said here	the remainder of your life		prison		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent remainder=Theme in prison=Destination
6	desire	present	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		good property	tree rules
8	is	present · perfect	you		me		wicked property	tree rules

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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