The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 37
But they will have brought him tidings of the broken carriage, and he will have thought me dead, or devoured by wild beasts.
Who acts: father · What happens: bring, break, think, devour · To what, where: hands, me
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 brought | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 brought | aux |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obj |
| 7 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 carriage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 carriage | det |
| 10 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 carriage | amod |
| 11 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tidings | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 thought | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 thought | aux |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 brought | parataxis |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | obj |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thought | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 devoured | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 devoured | cc |
| 22 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 thought | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 beasts | case |
| 24 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beasts | amod |
| 25 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 devoured | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | future · perfect · passive | hands = hand | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | future · perfect | father | me | dead property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | |||
| 4 | devour | participle | father not said here | by wild beasts | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: 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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