The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 59

‘I’d like to wring their necks,’ said the magician, and made all haste home, where he had every one of his servants beaten to within an inch of their lives.

Who acts: I, magician · What happens: have, like, wring, say, make, beat · To what, where: necks, haste, one, servants · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, magician), 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	_	3 ’d	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ’d	nsubj
3	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ’d	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wring	mark
6	wring	wring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 necks	nmod:poss
8	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wring	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ’d	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 ’d	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 magician	det
13	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 made	cc
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 haste	det
18	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obj
19	home	home	ADV	_	16 made	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 had	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 made	conj
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 servants	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 servants	nmod:poss
28	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 one	nmod
29	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 servants	acl
30	to	to	ADP	_	29 beaten	obl
31	within	within	ADP	_	33 inch	case
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 inch	det
33	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 beaten	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 lives	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 lives	nmod:poss
36	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 inch	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	I			tree rules
2	like	infinitive	I not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	wring not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	pass's necks		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	the magician			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	make	past		all haste	home property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product
6	have	past	Magician	every one of Magician's servants		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
7	beat	participle		Magician's servants not said here	within a inch of pass's lives	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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