The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 97
“Of course, the victor would have the right to kill the other,” went on the tortoise.
Who acts: victor · What happens: have, kill, go · To what, where: right, other, tortoise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (victor), 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 | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 course | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 course | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 victor | det |
| 6 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 went | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 right | det |
| 10 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 kill | mark |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 right | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kill | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 tortoise | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tortoise | det |
| 20 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | would | the victor | the right | of course | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | |||
| 2 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | the victor not said here | the other | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the tortoise | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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