The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 144

“Wretched idiots!” cried Kabo; “Pivi was a scoundrel who broke my leg, and knocked me into the river.”

Who acts: Wretched idiots, Pivi, scoundrel · What happens: cry, be, break, knock · To what, where: scoundrel, leg, Wretched idiots, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wretched idiots, Pivi, scoundrel), 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	_	3 idiots	punct
2	Wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 idiots	amod
3	idiots	idiot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 idiots	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 idiots	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	flat
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 scoundrel	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 scoundrel	punct
10	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 scoundrel	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 scoundrel	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 scoundrel	det
13	scoundrel	scoundrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 broke	nsubj
15	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 scoundrel	acl:relcl
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 leg	nmod:poss
17	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 broke	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 knocked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 knocked	cc
20	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 knocked	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 river	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 river	det
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 knocked	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Wretched idiots			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	Pivi	a scoundrel		tree rules
3	break in a quote	past	a scoundrel	my leg		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient
4	knock in a quote	past	Wretched idiots not said here	Wretched idiots = idiot	the river	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme into river=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 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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