The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 31
‘This is the wretch who killed our father,’ they said, ‘and we demand that he should die also.’
Who acts: This, wretch, sons, we, man · What happens: be, kill, say, demand, die · To what, where: wretch, father · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, wretch, sons, we), 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 | _ | 5 wretch | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 wretch | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wretch | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wretch | det |
| 5 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 killed | nsubj |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wretch | acl:relcl |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 killed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wretch | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wretch | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 demand | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 18 demand | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 demand | cc |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 demand | nsubj |
| 18 | demand | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 die | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 die | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 die | aux |
| 22 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 demand | ccomp |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 die | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the wretch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | the wretch | our father | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | sons = son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | present | we | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 5 | die | should | man | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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