The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 68
“You have not deserved it,” he uttered, in a voice like thunder, and seizing her he flung her into the jar of oil, where she was nearly suffocated.
Who acts: You, father · What happens: not deserve, utter, seize, fling, suffocate · To what, where: fire, voice, Lizina, jar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, father), 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 | _ | 5 deserved | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 deserved | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 deserved | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 deserved | advmod |
| 5 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 uttered | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 deserved | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserved | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserved | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 uttered | nsubj |
| 10 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 voice | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 uttered | obl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 thunder | case |
| 16 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 voice | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flung | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 flung | cc |
| 19 | seizing | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 flung | csubj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seizing | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 flung | nsubj |
| 22 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 uttered | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 flung | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 jar | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 jar | det |
| 26 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flung | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 oil | case |
| 28 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 jar | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 suffocated | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 suffocated | advmod |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 suffocated | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 suffocated | aux:pass |
| 33 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 34 suffocated | advmod |
| 34 | suffocated | suffocate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 jar | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deserve in a quote | present · perfect | You | fire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | father | a voice like thunder | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seize | gerund | Lizina | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fling | past | father | Lizina | the jar of oil | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme into jar=Destination | |||
| 5 | suffocate | past · passive | Lizina | nearly property | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Patient |
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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