The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 83

‘He would beat the dogs and cats that break the king’s glasses,’ answered the boy.

Who acts: father, dogs · What happens: beat, break, answer · To what, where: dogs, glasses, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, dogs), 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	_	4 beat	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beat	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 beat	aux
4	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 answered	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dogs	det
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beat	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cats	cc
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dogs	conj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 break	nsubj
10	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dogs	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 glasses	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 king	case
14	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 break	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 beat	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 beat	punct
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 answered	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	beat	would	father	the dogs and cats		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme
2	break	present	the dogs and cats	the king's glasses		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=Patient
3	answer speech: assert	past			the boy	tree rules

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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