The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 93
Your father threatens me with death, and I see myself already without a head.’
Who acts: father, I · What happens: threaten, see · To what, where: me, myself
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 (father, 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threatens | nsubj |
| 3 | threatens | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 threatens | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threatens | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 threatens | parataxis |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | already | already | ADV | _ | 10 see | advmod |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | present | Your father | me | with death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | see | present | I | myself | without a head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus |
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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