The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 102
“Then go to a hundred deaths!” roared the king, and ordered the shepherd to be thrown down the deep vault of scythes.
What happens: go, roar, order, throw down · To what, where: hundred deaths, king, shepherd, deep vault · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 go | advmod |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 roared | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 hundred | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hundred | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 deaths | nummod |
| 7 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 10 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roared | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ordered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ordered | cc |
| 15 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 roared | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shepherd | det |
| 17 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ordered | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 thrown | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thrown | aux:pass |
| 20 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 shepherd | acl |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 vault | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 vault | det |
| 23 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 vault | amod |
| 24 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thrown | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 scythes | case |
| 26 | scythes | scythe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 vault | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | hundred deaths | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roar | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | order | past | the shepherd | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme | |||||
| 4 | throw down | to-infinitive · passive | the deep vault of scythes | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: vault=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: «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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