More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 62
Who gave you authority to come this way?" roared he. "
What happens: give, come, roar · To what, where: authority, you, way, Tom
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gave | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 11 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 roared | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | authority | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient authority=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | this way | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||||
| 3 | roar in a quote | past | Tom | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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