The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 73

'You are at the bottom of this, I know,' she cried; and as the father was out of the way she took a stick and beat the girl till she screamed with pain and went to bed sobbing.

Who acts: You, I, evil, father · What happens: be, know, cry, take, beat, scream · To what, where: bottom, way, stick, girl, bed

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 (You, I, evil, 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	_	6 bottom	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 bottom	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bottom	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 bottom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 bottom	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bottom	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cried	nsubj
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 know	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 way	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 father	det
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 way	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 way	cop
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 way	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 way	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 way	det
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	advcl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cried	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 stick	det
29	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 beat	cc
31	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 took	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 girl	det
33	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 beat	obj
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 screamed	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 screamed	nsubj
36	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 beat	advcl
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 pain	case
38	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 screamed	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 went	cc
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 screamed	conj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 bed	case
42	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 went	obl
43	sobbing	sob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 went	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bottom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	You		the bottom	of this	tree rules
2	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	cry speech: express	past	evil				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the father		the way		tree rules
5	take	past	evil	a stick			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
6	beat	infinitive	evil not said here	the girl			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location girl=Theme
7	scream speech: express	past	evil			with pain	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=Theme
8	go	past	evil not said here		bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
9	sob	gerund	evil not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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