The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 56
“And how have you ill-treated him?” he went on.
Who acts: voice · What happens: treat, go on · To what, where: voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice), 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 treated | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 have | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 treated | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 ill | punct |
| 8 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 treated | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 treated | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 treated | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 treated | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat in a quote | present · perfect | voice | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | go on | past | voice | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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