The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 88
'The servants pushed him out of the palace, and, added a few blows to teach him not to be insolent,' replied the man.
Who acts: servants · What happens: push, add, teach, not be, reply · To what, where: king, palace, few blows, insolent, man
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 | _ | 4 pushed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servants | det |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pushed | nsubj |
| 4 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pushed | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pushed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 added | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 added | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pushed | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 blows | det |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blows | amod |
| 16 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 added | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 teach | mark |
| 18 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 added | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 teach | obj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 insolent | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 insolent | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 insolent | cop |
| 23 | insolent | insolent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 teach | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 replied | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 replied | punct |
| 26 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pushed | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 replied | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | the servants | king | the palace | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme out palace=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | the servants not said here | a few blows | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | the servants not said here | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not is a | to-infinitive | insolent | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | reply speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
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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