The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 84

‘If the man has poisoned you he shall pay for it,’ said her husband, and seizing a thick stick he ran downstairs and began to beat the poor man, who had been sound asleep, and had nothing to defend himself with.

Who acts: man, poor man · What happens: poison, pay, say, seize, run, begin · To what, where: man, husband, thick stick, poor man, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, poor 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 poisoned	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poisoned	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 poisoned	aux
6	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 poisoned	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pay	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pay	aux
10	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 poisoned	parataxis
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pay	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 poisoned	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 husband	nmod:poss
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seizing	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seizing	cc
20	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 stick	det
22	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stick	amod
23	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seizing	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ran	nsubj
25	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stick	acl:relcl
26	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	25 ran	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 beat	mark
30	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
32	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beat	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 asleep	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 asleep	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 asleep	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 asleep	cop
38	sound	sound	ADV	_	39 asleep	advmod
39	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	acl:relcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 had	cc
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
43	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	42 had	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 defend	mark
45	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 nothing	acl
46	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 defend	obj
47	with	with	ADP	_	45 defend	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	poison a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect · passive		the man		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient you=Result
2	pay	shall	man		for supper	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		wife's husband		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent husband=Topic
4	seize	gerund		a thick stick		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
5	run	past	man	a thick stick not said here	downstairs property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stick=Trajectory
6	begin	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	beat	to-infinitive		the poor man		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme
8	is	past · perfect	the poor man		asleep, sound property	tree rules
9	have	past		nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
10	defend	to-infinitive		man		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary

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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