The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 77

And he ran to the village to tell them that the thief was punished.

Who acts: shot · What happens: run, tell, punish · To what, where: village, thief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shot), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 ran	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tell	mark
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ran	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 punished	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thief	det
12	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 punished	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 punished	aux:pass
14	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tell	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	shot			to the village result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to village=Result
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	shot not said here		village		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	punish	past · passive		the thief			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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