The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 131
'Burn him alive, and strew his ashes all over the kingdom.'
Who acts: you · What happens: burn, strew · To what, where: king, ashes, kingdom
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 (you), 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 | _ | 2 Burn | punct |
| 2 | Burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Burn | obj |
| 4 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Burn | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 strew | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 strew | cc |
| 7 | strew | strew | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Burn | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ashes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strew | obj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 kingdom | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 kingdom | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kingdom | det |
| 13 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strew | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Burn | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Burn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | imperative | you not said here | king | alive property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | strew | infinitive | you not said here | king's ashes | the kingdom | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ash=Theme over kingdom=Destination |
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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