The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 89

‘Down, Caro! you ought to be rather ashamed to have put such a great hero to flight!’

What happens: be, put · To what, where: great hero

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	4 Caro	punct
2	Down	down	ADV	_	4 Caro	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Down	punct
4	Caro	Caro	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Caro	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 ought	nsubj
7	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 Caro	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	11 ashamed	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 ashamed	cop
10	rather	rather	ADV	_	11 ashamed	advmod
11	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ought	xcomp
12	to	to	PART	_	14 put	mark
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 put	aux
14	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 ashamed	xcomp
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 hero	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hero	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hero	amod
18	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 flight	case
20	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Caro	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Caro	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						ashamed property	tree rules
2	put	to-infinitive · perfect		such great hero				to flight	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hero=Goal

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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