The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 34
The robber, indeed, granted him his life, but took out both his eyes, which he thrust into the prince’s hand, saying brutally:
Who acts: robber, eyes · What happens: grant, take out, thrust, say · To what, where: life, prince, eyes, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robber, eyes), 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 robber | det |
| 2 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 granted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 robber | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 robber | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 robber | punct |
| 6 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 granted | obj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 granted | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 granted | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 took | compound:prt |
| 14 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 16 eyes | cc:preconj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 took | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thrust | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 thrust | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thrust | nsubj |
| 20 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eyes | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 prince | case |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 saying | punct |
| 27 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 took | conj |
| 28 | brutally | brutally | ADV | _ | 27 saying | advmod |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | the robber | prince's life | prince | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal life=Theme | |||
| 2 | take out | past | prince's eyes and thrust | the prince's hand | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | thrust | prince's eyes and thrust | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | brutally property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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