The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 57
'What shall we do to revenge ourselves on her?' asked the smallest of the doves, 'we were never treated like that before.'
Who acts: we · What happens: do, ask, not treat · To what, where: revenge, we · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 revenge | mark |
| 7 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 revenge | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 smallest | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 smallest | det |
| 15 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 doves | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 doves | det |
| 18 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 smallest | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 treated | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 treated | punct |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 treated | aux:pass |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 treated | advmod |
| 24 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 smallest | parataxis |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 that | case |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 treated | obl |
| 27 | before | before | ADV | _ | 24 treated | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 smallest | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 smallest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | shall | we | revenge ourselves | on stepmother | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not treat | past · passive | we | like that; before property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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