The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 99
Now in his heart the king cherished a deadly hate towards the poor young man whom he had tried to kill, but who had returned to him living, and in order to do him hurt sent him on a message to some distant spot.
Who acts: king, man · What happens: cherish, try, kill, return, live, hurt · To what, where: deadly hate, heart, poor young man, man, message
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, man), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 cherished | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 heart | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cherished | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cherished | nsubj |
| 7 | cherished | cherish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hate | det |
| 9 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hate | amod |
| 10 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cherished | obj |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cherished | obl |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 tried | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tried | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tried | aux |
| 19 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 man | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 kill | mark |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tried | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 returned | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 returned | cc |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 returned | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 returned | aux |
| 26 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 cherished | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 returned | obl |
| 29 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 returned | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hurt | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 hurt | cc |
| 32 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 do | mark |
| 33 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 in | fixed |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 do | mark |
| 35 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 37 hurt | aux |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 do | obj |
| 37 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cherished | advcl |
| 38 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cherished | conj |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 sent | obj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 message | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 message | det |
| 42 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sent | obl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 spot | case |
| 44 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 spot | det |
| 45 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 spot | amod |
| 46 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sent | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cherished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cherish | past | the king | a deadly hate | man's heart | now | towards the poor young man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hate=Stimulus | |
| 2 | try | past · perfect | man | the poor young man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | return | past · perfect | man | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result | |||||
| 5 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | hurt | infinitive · do-support | the king not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | send | past | the king not said here | man | a message | to some distant spot | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to spot=Destination |
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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