The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 99
‘I caught it robbing me, and it shall suffer the doom of a thief.’
Who acts: I, reptile · What happens: catch, rob, suffer, doom · To what, where: reptile, me, doom, thief
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, reptile), 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 | _ | 3 caught | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | robbing | rob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 caught | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 robbing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 suffer | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 suffer | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 suffer | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 suffer | aux |
| 11 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 caught | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 doom | det |
| 13 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suffer | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 thief | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thief | det |
| 16 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 doom | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | I | reptile | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rob | gerund | I not said here | me | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source | ||||
| 3 | suffer | shall | reptile | the doom of a thief | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doom=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | doom | a thief | nom doom «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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