The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 34
He ordered that it should not be killed, but trapped or captured with a noose.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: order, not kill, trap, capture · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 killed | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 killed | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 killed | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 killed | aux:pass |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ordered | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trapped | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 trapped | cc |
| 11 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ordered | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 captured | cc |
| 13 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 trapped | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 noose | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 noose | det |
| 16 | noose | noose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 captured | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Prince | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not kill not said to happen | should · passive | place | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | trap | participle | Prince not said here | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | capture | participle | Prince not said here | with a noose | vn steal-10.5-1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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