The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 111
He got up and beat her till she was marked with weals, but she uttered no complaint.
Who acts: fault, Gul · What happens: get up, beat, mark, utter · To what, where: Gul, complaint
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (fault, Gul), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 got | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beat | cc |
| 5 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beat | obj |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 marked | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 marked | aux:pass |
| 10 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 beat | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 weals | case |
| 12 | weals | weal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 marked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 uttered | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 uttered | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 uttered | nsubj |
| 16 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 complaint | det |
| 18 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 uttered | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | fault | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | beat | past | fault not said here | Gul | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mark | past · passive | Gul | with weals | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with weal=Theme | ||||
| 4 | utter speech: other | past | Gul | no complaint | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent complaint=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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