The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 97

“I laugh at your powerlessness and anger, and I intend to punish your pride by letting you fall into the hands of your own subjects.”

Who acts: voice, you, your · What happens: laugh, intend, punish, let, fall, pride · To what, where: powerlessness, pride, you, hands

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 (voice, you, your), 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	_	3 laugh	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 laugh	nsubj
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 powerlessness	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 powerlessness	nmod:poss
6	powerlessness	powerlessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 anger	cc
8	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 powerlessness	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 intend	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 intend	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 intend	nsubj
12	intend	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 punish	mark
14	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 intend	xcomp
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pride	nmod:poss
16	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 punish	obj
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 letting	mark
18	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 punish	advcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 letting	obj
20	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 letting	xcomp
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 hands	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hands	det
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fall	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 subjects	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 subjects	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 subjects	amod
27	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hands	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laugh	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh in a quote	present	a voice = voice		your powerlessness and anger		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	intend in a quote	present	a voice = voice				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	punish not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	a voice = voice not said here	your pride			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Patient
4	let in a quote	gerund	a voice = voice not said here	you			tree rules
5	fall in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			into the hands of your own subjects result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result
6	pride in a quote		your				nom pride «feeling 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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