The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 97
Now he has got his well-merited punishment.”
Who acts: man · What happens: get, merit, punish · To what, where: merited punishment
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 merited | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | merited | merit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 punishment | amod |
| 9 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | man | man's merited punishment | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer punishment=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | merit | participle | well property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | punish | man | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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