More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 69
The man was enraged, as we may well think, gave him many a thump, and ordered him to repeat:
Who acts: we · What happens: enrage, think, give, order, repeat · To what, where: man, many
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enraged | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enraged | aux:pass |
| 4 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 think | mark |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | aux |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 think | advmod |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 enraged | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gave | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thump | det |
| 16 | thump | thump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ordered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ordered | cc |
| 19 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ordered | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 repeat | mark |
| 22 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ordered | xcomp |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 enraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enrage | past · passive | the man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | may | we | well property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | past | we not said here | many | man | tree rules | |||
| 4 | order | past | we not said here | man | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | repeat not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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