The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 129
How shall I punish this unnatural father, for it is left to me to give judgment?'
Who acts: I · What happens: punish, leave, give · To what, where: unnatural father, youth, me, judgment
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 punish | advmod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 punish | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 punish | nsubj |
| 4 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 father | det |
| 6 | unnatural | unnatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 father | amod |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 punish | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 left | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 left | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux:pass |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 punish | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 left | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 left | advcl |
| 17 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 punish | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 punish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | shall | I | this unnatural father | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | present · passive | youth | me | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | judgment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Theme |
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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