The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 77
His anger was terrible, and he vowed vengeance against whoever had helped her to escape.
Who acts: anger, brother, whoever, Celia · What happens: be, vow, help, escape, anger · To what, where: vengeance, Celia
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anger, brother, whoever, Celia), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 anger | nmod:poss |
| 2 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 terrible | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrible | cop |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 vowed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 vowed | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 vowed | nsubj |
| 8 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrible | conj |
| 9 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vowed | obj |
| 10 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 13 helped | mark |
| 11 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 helped | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 helped | aux |
| 13 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 vowed | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 helped | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 escape | mark |
| 16 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 helped | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 terrible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | brother's anger | terrible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vow | past | brother | vengeance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help | past · perfect | whoever | Celia | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | escape | to-infinitive | Celia not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | anger | brother | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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