The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 86

‘Oh, you wicked monster!’ thought Prince Milan, ‘you might as well have put me to death at once.’

Who acts: you, wicked monster · What happens: monster, think, put · To what, where: Prince Milan, me

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (you, wicked monster), 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 monster	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 monster	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 monster	nsubj
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 monster	amod
6	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 monster	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 monster	punct
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Milan	compound
11	Milan	Milan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 thought	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 put	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 put	aux
16	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	19 put	cc
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 as	fixed
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 put	aux
19	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 thought	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 put	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 death	case
22	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 once	case
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 put	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	monster		you			tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	wicked monster	Prince Milan		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot milan=Theme
3	put	might · perfect	you	me	to death	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme at once=Destination

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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