The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 44

They said they were peris, and that their king had blinded them in his anger and had left them in the well alone.

Who acts: schemes, king · What happens: say, be, blind, leave, anger · To what, where: peris, schemes, anger, well · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (schemes, king), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 peris	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 peris	cop
5	peris	peri	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blinded	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blinded	cc
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 blinded	mark
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 king	nmod:poss
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blinded	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 blinded	aux
12	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blinded	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 anger	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 anger	nmod:poss
16	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blinded	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 left	cc
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 left	aux
19	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 blinded	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 left	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 well	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 well	det
23	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 left	obl
24	alone	alone	ADV	_	23 well	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	schemes = scheme			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	schemes = scheme	peris		tree rules
3	blind	past · perfect	schemes's king	schemes = scheme	king's anger	tree rules
4	leave	past · perfect	schemes's king not said here	schemes = scheme	the well	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in well=Location
5	anger		king			nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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