The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 77

Then the envious mother cried out, ‘Will you fare better than we do? you shall not have the chance to do so again!’ and she fetched a knife, and killed the goat.

Who acts: envious mother, you, we, mother · What happens: cry out, fare, do, not have, fetch, kill · To what, where: chance, knife, goat

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (envious mother, you, we, mother), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 cried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
3	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mother	amod
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 cried	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fare	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 fare	punct
9	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fare	aux
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 fare	nsubj
11	fare	fare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
12	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 fare	advmod
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 do	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
15	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 better	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 have	advmod
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fare	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chance	det
22	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 do	mark
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 chance	acl
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 again	advmod
26	again	again	ADV	_	24 do	advmod
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fetched	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fetched	nsubj
31	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 knife	det
33	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fetched	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 killed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 killed	cc
36	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 goat	det
38	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 killed	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	the envious mother		then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fare	future	you			well property	tree rules
3	do	present	we				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not have	shall	you	the chance			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
5	do	to-infinitive	you not said here	the chance not said here	again		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fetch	past	mother	a knife			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
7	kill	past	the envious mother not said here	the goat			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=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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