English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 16
“Set me a task, or I shall strangle thee!”
Who acts: you, Beelzebub · What happens: set, strangle · To what, where: Beelzebub, thee
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Beelzebub), 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 | _ | 2 Set | punct |
| 2 | Set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Set | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 task | det |
| 5 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Set | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 strangle | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 strangle | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 strangle | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 strangle | aux |
| 10 | strangle | strangle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Set | conj |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 strangle | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Set | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Beelzebub | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent i=Theme task=Destination | ||||
| 2 | strangle in a quote | shall | Beelzebub | thee | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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