Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 30

I have been told that she even struck the king with a stick; but I can hardly be-lieve that she was so ill-na-tured.

Who acts: many, I · What happens: tell, strike, be · To what, where: I, king, many · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 struck	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 struck	nsubj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 struck	advmod
8	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 struck	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 stick	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stick	det
13	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 struck	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lieve	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 lieve	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 lieve	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 lieve	aux
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	21 lieve	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 lieve	cop
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 lieve	punct
21	lieve	lieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 tured	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tured	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 tured	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	30 tured	advmod
26	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 na	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 ill	punct
28	na	na	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tured	nsubj:pass
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 na	punct
30	tured	tur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 lieve	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		I		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	strike	past	many	the king	with a stick	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent king=Patient with stick=Instrument
3	is	can	I		hardly, lieve property	tree rules
4	is	past · passive		many	tur 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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/30/