--- title: It rests with me to have your head cut off, or to condemn you to pas… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It rests with me to have your head cut off, or to condemn you to pass the remainder of your life in prison; but I desire to be as good to you as you have been wicked to me.’ Who acts: favour, head, I, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (favour, head, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:19:57 # text = It rests with me to have your head cut off, or to condemn you to pass the remainder of your life in prison; but I desire to be as good to you as you have been wicked to me.’ 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 rests rest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 xcomp _ _ 10 off off ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 condemn condemn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 remainder remainder NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 desire desire VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 31 as as ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 cop _ _ 39 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advcl _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rest** | present | favour | | | | | with me | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | favour *not said here* | your head | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cut off** | participle | your head *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **condemn** | to-infinitive | favour *not said here* | you | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 5 | **pass** | to-infinitive | favour *not said here* | the remainder of your life | | prison | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent remainder=Theme in prison=Destination | | 6 | **desire** | present | I | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | you | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | present · perfect | you | | me | | | wicked *property* | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/58/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/)