The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 100
‘What punishment does that person deserve who drags another out of bed, and throws him or her, as the case may be, into the water?’
Who acts: person, case · What happens: deserve, drag, throw, be · To what, where: another, bed, person
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, case), 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 | _ | 7 deserve | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 does | obj |
| 3 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 deserve | aux |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deserve | nsubj |
| 7 | deserve | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 drags | nsubj |
| 9 | drags | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 deserve | ccomp |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 drags | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drags | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 throws | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 throws | cc |
| 16 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 deserve | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 throws | obj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 her | cc |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 throws | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 be | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 be | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 case | det |
| 23 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 be | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 be | aux |
| 25 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 deserve | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 water | punct |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 water | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 water | det |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deserve | parataxis |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 deserve | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 deserve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | present · do-support | that person | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drag | present | another | bed | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent another=Theme out bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | throw | present | person | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | may | the case | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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