The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 99
I reprimanded the groom and beat him.
Who acts: I · What happens: reprimand, beat · To what, where: groom, Tiger
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 reprimanded | nsubj |
| 2 | reprimanded | reprimand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 groom | det |
| 4 | groom | groom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reprimanded | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 beat | cc |
| 6 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 reprimanded | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beat | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reprimanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reprimand | past | I | the groom | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beat | infinitive | I not said here | Tiger | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=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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