The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 114
“The wretches shall pay for it, and that instantly.”
Who acts: wretches · What happens: pay
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wretches), 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 | _ | 5 pay | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wretches | det |
| 3 | wretches | wretch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pay | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pay | aux |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 instantly | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 instantly | cc |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 instantly | nsubj |
| 11 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 5 pay | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pay | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay in a quote | shall | the wretches | for spectacle; instantly property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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