The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 24
And as you,’ he added, turning to the younger brother, ‘brought this accusation knowing full well it was wicked and unjust, I order you, besides losing the houses, to pay a thousand pounds damages to your brother.’
Who acts: man, accusation, I, thousand pounds · What happens: add, turn, bring, know, be, order · To what, where: accusation, you, houses
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, accusation, I, thousand pounds), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 added | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 you | case |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 added | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 added | nsubj |
| 7 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turning | punct |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 added | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 brother | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brother | det |
| 12 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 brother | amod |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turning | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 added | conj |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 accusation | det |
| 18 | accusation | accusation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obj |
| 19 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 accusation | acl |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 knowing | xcomp |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 wicked | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wicked | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wicked | cop |
| 24 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 full | advcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 unjust | cc |
| 26 | unjust | unjust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wicked | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 order | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 order | nsubj |
| 29 | order | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 added | parataxis |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 order | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 besides | punct |
| 32 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 order | conj |
| 33 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 besides | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 houses | det |
| 35 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 losing | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 pay | punct |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 pay | mark |
| 38 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 added | parataxis |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 thousand | det |
| 40 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 pounds | nummod |
| 41 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 damages | nsubj |
| 42 | damages | damage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 pay | ccomp |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 brother | case |
| 44 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 brother | nmod:poss |
| 45 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 damages | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 added | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | man | as you | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | man not said here | to the younger brother result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to brother=Result | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | man not said here | this accusation | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent accusation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | gerund | this accusation not said here | full property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | past | accusation | well, wicked property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | accusation not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | order | present | I | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 8 | beside | present | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | lose | gerund | I not said here | the houses | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Eventuality | ||||
| 10 | pay | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 11 | damage | present | thousand pounds | to your brother | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/24/