The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 94
‘I am about to hang a thief that I caught robbing me!’
Who acts: I · What happens: hang, catch, rob · To what, where: thief, me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 6 hang | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hang | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hang | aux |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 hang | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hang | mark |
| 6 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thief | det |
| 8 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hang | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 caught | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 caught | nsubj |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thief | acl:relcl |
| 12 | robbing | rob | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 caught | xcomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 robbing | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 hang | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 hang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present | I | a thief | about property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Patient | |||
| 2 | catch | past | I | a thief | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rob | gerund | I not said here | me | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source |
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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