The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 72
But the king your father will avenge the insults that have been heaped on you when we tell him how you have been treated.'
Who acts: king, we · What happens: avenge, heap, tell, treat · To what, where: insults, father, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 avenge | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 avenge | nsubj |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 avenge | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 avenge | aux |
| 7 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 insults | det |
| 9 | insults | insult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 avenge | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 heaped | obj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 heaped | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 heaped | aux:pass |
| 13 | heaped | heap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 insults | acl:relcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 heaped | obl |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 tell | advmod |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 avenge | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 treated | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 treated | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 treated | aux:pass |
| 24 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 tell | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 avenge | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 avenge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avenge | future | the king | the insults | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | heap | present · perfect · passive | the insults | on you | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: that=Theme on you=Destination | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | we | father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | treat | present · perfect · passive | you | 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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