The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 2
When she had ended the prince turned angrily to Laufer, and declared that, as a punishment for her wicked lies, she deserved to die a shameful death.
Who acts: Lineik, prince · What happens: end, turn, declare, deserve, die, lie · To what, where: Laufer, that, shameful death
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lineik, prince), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 ended | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ended | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ended | aux |
| 4 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 turned | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 7 turned | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Laufer | case |
| 10 | Laufer | Laufer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 declared | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 declared | cc |
| 13 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 declared | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 punishment | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 punishment | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 punishment | det |
| 18 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 declared | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 lies | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lies | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lies | amod |
| 22 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 punishment | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 deserved | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 deserved | nsubj |
| 25 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 die | mark |
| 27 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 deserved | xcomp |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 death | det |
| 29 | shameful | shameful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 death | amod |
| 30 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 die | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past · perfect | Lineik | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | the prince | Laufer | angrily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to laufer=Result | |||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | the prince not said here | that | as a punishment for Lineik's wicked lies | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme as punishment=Attribute | |||
| 4 | deserve | past | Lineik | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | die | to-infinitive | Lineik not said here | a shameful death | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | lie | Lineik | nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=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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