The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 57
What evil have I done to thee, that thou shouldest do so much to me, for in all my lands neither man nor beast that met that shower has escaped alive.”
Who acts: that, man · What happens: do, meet, escape · To what, where: evil, shower, lands
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 done | obj |
| 2 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 thee | case |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 done | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 do | nsubj |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | shouldest | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 do | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 much | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lands | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 lands | case |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 lands | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 lands | det:predet |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lands | nmod:poss |
| 22 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 do | obl |
| 23 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 escaped | nsubj |
| 25 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 beast | cc |
| 26 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 man | conj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 met | nsubj |
| 28 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 man | acl:relcl |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 shower | det |
| 30 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 met | obj |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 escaped | aux |
| 32 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 lands | acl:relcl |
| 33 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 escaped | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 lands | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect · passive | evil | to thee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | should | that | for my lands | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | neither man nor beast | that shower | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shower=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | escape | present · perfect | neither man nor beast | my lands not said here | alive property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Initial_Location |
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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