The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 25

‘A gentle son-in-law, truly!’ cried Yspaddaden, ‘the iron pains me like the bite of a horse-leech.

Who acts: law, iron · What happens: cry, pain, bite · To what, where: me, horse leech

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (law, iron), 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	_	8 law	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 son	det
3	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 son	amod
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 law	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 law	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 law	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 in	punct
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 law	punct
10	truly	truly	ADV	_	8 law	advmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 law	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 law	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Yspaddaden	Yspaddaden	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cried	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pains	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 pains	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 iron	det
18	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pains	nsubj
19	pains	pain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 pains	obj
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 bite	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bite	det
23	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pains	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 leech	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 leech	det
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leech	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 horse	punct
28	leech	leech	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bite	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	law			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pain	present	the iron	me	like the bite of a horse leech	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
3	bite			a horse leech		nom bite «state 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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