The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 123
Then I got up and despatched the wretch.
Who acts: I · What happens: get up, despatch · To what, where: wretch
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 despatched | cc |
| 6 | despatched | despatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wretch | det |
| 8 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 despatched | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | I | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | despatch | past | I not said here | the wretch | tree rules |
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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