The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 41
You both deserved death,' he said, 'and if it were left to me, you should have it.
Who acts: You, prince · What happens: deserve, say, leave, have · To what, where: death, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, prince), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 deserved | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | ADV | _ | 3 deserved | advmod |
| 3 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deserved | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 deserved | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 left | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux:pass |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 have | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 left | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 deserved | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 deserved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | past | You | death | both property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | death | me | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | have | should | you | death | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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