The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 25

Thinking it was going to touch it, he drew his sword and saying, ‘As long as I am alive you shall not harm her,’ he cut it in three pieces.

Who acts: provision, I, you · What happens: think, go, touch, draw, say, be · To what, where: creep, sword, corpse, three pieces · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (provision, 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	Thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 going	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 touch	mark
6	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touch	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 drew	nsubj
10	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sword	nmod:poss
12	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drew	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saying	cc
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 going	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 long	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 long	punct
17	As	as	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 saying	obl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 alive	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 alive	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 alive	cop
22	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 long	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 harm	nsubj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 harm	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 harm	advmod
26	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 alive	ccomp
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 harm	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cut	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 cut	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cut	nsubj
31	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 long	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cut	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 pieces	case
34	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 pieces	nummod
35	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 cut	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past · progressive					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	touch	to-infinitive		creep			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
4	draw	past	provision	provision's sword			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	I			alive property	tree rules
7	not harm	shall	you	corpse			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
8	cut	past	provision	creep	three pieces		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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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