The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 90
He came here from kindness, and there was no reason to maltreat him.'
Who acts: king · What happens: come, be, maltreat · To what, where: kindness, reason, king
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 (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 reason | csubj |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 kindness | case |
| 5 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 reason | cop |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 reason | det |
| 11 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 maltreat | mark |
| 13 | maltreat | maltreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 reason | acl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 maltreat | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 reason | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | king | kindness; here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from kindness=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | no reason | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | maltreat | to-infinitive | king | tree rules |
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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