The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 50

As for the gentleman who struck him, he will be brought before my judges, and will plead his own cause, but I hardly think he can escape death, after having assaulted the heir to the crown.’

Who acts: gentleman, I, company · What happens: strike, bring, plead, think, escape, assault · To what, where: company, judges, own cause, death, heir · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, I, company), 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	As	as	ADP	_	4 gentleman	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 gentleman	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gentleman	det
4	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 struck	nsubj
6	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gentleman	acl:relcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 struck	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gentleman	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 brought	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 brought	aux:pass
12	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 judges	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 judges	nmod:poss
15	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 brought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 plead	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 plead	cc
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 plead	aux
19	plead	plead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 brought	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cause	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cause	amod
22	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 plead	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 think	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 think	nsubj
26	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	27 think	advmod
27	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 brought	conj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 escape	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 escape	aux
30	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 think	ccomp
31	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 escape	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 assaulted	punct
33	after	after	SCONJ	_	35 assaulted	mark
34	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 assaulted	aux
35	assaulted	assault	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 escape	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 heir	det
37	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 assaulted	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 crown	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 crown	det
40	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 assaulted	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the gentleman	company			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
2	bring	future · passive		company	my judges	as the gentleman	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before judge=Destination
3	plead speech: request	future		company's own cause			tree rules
4	think speech: other	present	I			hardly property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	escape	can	company	death			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Initial_Location
6	assault	gerund · perfect	company not said here	the heir		to the crown	vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heir=Patient
7	cause		company				nom cause «event transitive»: poss=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.

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