The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 20
I hate cruelty: I never put a wicked stepmother in a barrel and send her tobogganing down a hill.
Who acts: I · What happens: hate, not put, send, toboggan down · To what, where: cruelty, wicked stepmother, barrel, England, hill
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. 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 hate | nsubj |
| 2 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hate | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 put | nsubj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 put | advmod |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hate | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stepmother | det |
| 9 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stepmother | amod |
| 10 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 barrel | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 barrel | det |
| 13 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 send | cc |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 hate | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 send | obj |
| 17 | tobogganing | toboggan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 send | advcl |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 hill | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hill | det |
| 20 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tobogganing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | I | cruelty | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cruelty=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not put | past | I | a wicked stepmother | a barrel | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stepmother=Theme in barrel=Destination | |||
| 3 | send | infinitive | I not said here | England | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | toboggan down | gerund | I not said here | a hill | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Location |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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