The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 11
Wicked traitress, Barne Riou, Our poor toes are burned by you; Now we hurry from your hall-- Bad luck light upon you all.
Who acts: you, we · What happens: burn, hurry · To what, where: poor toes, hall
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 traitress | amod |
| 2 | traitress | traitress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Barne | punct |
| 4 | Barne | Barne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 traitress | appos |
| 5 | Riou | Riou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Barne | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 burned | punct |
| 7 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 toes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 toes | amod |
| 9 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 burned | aux:pass |
| 11 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 traitress | parataxis |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 burned | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 hurry | punct |
| 15 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 hurry | advmod |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 hurry | nsubj |
| 17 | hurry | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 burned | parataxis |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 hall | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hall | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hurry | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 light | punct |
| 22 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 light | amod |
| 23 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 light | compound |
| 24 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hall | conj |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 light | conj |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 traitress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present · passive | you | Our poor toes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hurry | present | we | your hall and Bad luck light | now | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hall=Trajectory |
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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