The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 82

“The peri-king ordered me to be burnt, and said: ‘Why have you, a man, done this perfidious thing in my house?’

Who acts: peri king, you, man · What happens: order, be, say, have, do · To what, where: me, perfidious thing, house · 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 (peri king, you, man), 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

Pragmatics

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/82/