The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 100
'That will teach him to play tricks on us,' said they. '
Who acts: That, villagers · What happens: teach, play, say · To what, where: man, tricks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, villagers), 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 | _ | 4 teach | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 teach | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 teach | aux |
| 4 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 teach | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 play | mark |
| 7 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 teach | xcomp |
| 8 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 play | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 play | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 teach | parataxis |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 teach | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 teach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | future | That | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | That not said here | tricks | on us | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | villagers = villager | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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