The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 65
He hastened to set them free, and he asked who had treated them in so evil a manner.
Who acts: king · What happens: hasten, set, ask, treat · To what, where: servants, manner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hastened | nsubj |
| 2 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 set | mark |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hastened | xcomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | obj |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hastened | parataxis |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 treated | aux |
| 13 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 treated | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 manner | case |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 evil | advmod |
| 17 | evil | evil | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 manner | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 manner | det |
| 19 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treated | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | set | to-infinitive | king not said here | servants = servant | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | treat | past · perfect · passive | servants = servant | evil manner | tree rules |
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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