The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 70
How Geirald The Coward Was Punished
What happens: punish · To what, where: Geirald
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 6 Punished | advmod |
| 2 | Geirald | Geirald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Punished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Coward | det |
| 4 | Coward | Coward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Geirald | appos |
| 5 | Was | Was | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Punished | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | Punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | participle · passive | Geirald | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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