The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 51

They will certainly fall on you and kill you.’

Who acts: children · What happens: fall, kill · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fall	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 fall	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kill	cc
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fall	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 kill	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	future	children = child					on you; certainly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on you=Location
2	kill	infinitive	children = child not said here	you					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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