The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 92
Burchard fell into such a violent rage that it nearly killed him.
Who acts: Burchard, bullet · What happens: fall, kill · To what, where: violent rage, Burchard
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Burchard, bullet), 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 | Burchard | Burchard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 rage | case |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 rage | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rage | det |
| 6 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rage | amod |
| 7 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 killed | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 killed | nsubj |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 11 killed | advmod |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 killed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Burchard | into such violent rage result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into rage=Result | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | bullet | Burchard | nearly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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