The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 103
‘You have pronounced your own doom,’ said the King; and he ordered a barrel to be made lined with sharp nails, and in it he put the bad old woman and her daughter.
Who acts: You, King, your · What happens: pronounce, say, order, make, line, put · To what, where: own doom, barrel, bad old woman, nail · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, King, 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 | _ | 4 pronounced | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 pronounced | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pronounced | aux |
| 4 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 doom | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 doom | amod |
| 7 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pronounced | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pronounced | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 ordered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ordered | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ordered | nsubj |
| 16 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 barrel | det |
| 18 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ordered | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 made | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 made | aux:pass |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ordered | ccomp |
| 22 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 made | xcomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 nails | case |
| 24 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nails | amod |
| 25 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lined | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 put | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 put | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 put | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 put | nsubj |
| 31 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 woman | det |
| 33 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 woman | amod |
| 34 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 woman | amod |
| 35 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 put | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 daughter | cc |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 38 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 woman | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | present · perfect | You | your own doom | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | order | past | King | a barrel | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent barrel=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | King not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | line not said to happen | participle | King not said here | with sharp nails | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nail=Theme | ||||
| 6 | put | past | King | the bad old woman and woman's daughter | nail | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme in it=Destination | |||
| 7 | doom | your | nom doom «event 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 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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