The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 64

“If that old woman has been playing me a trick,” thought he, “I will hang her!

Who acts: old woman, I · What happens: play, think, hang · To what, where: trick, me, sultan, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 playing	mark
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 playing	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 playing	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 playing	aux
8	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 thought	advcl
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 playing	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 trick	det
11	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 playing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 playing	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 playing	punct
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hang	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 hang	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 hang	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 hang	aux
20	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thought	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hang	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	play a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	that old woman	a trick	me	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary trick=Theme
2	think speech: other	past		sultan		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	hang in a quote	future	I	woman		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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