The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 73
But he was very wroth, and none can blame him for that; so he caused the brother to be thrown into a pit full of snakes.
Who acts: King, none · What happens: be, blame, cause, throw · To what, where: King, brother, pit
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, none), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 wroth | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wroth | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wroth | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 wroth | advmod |
| 5 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blame | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blame | cc |
| 8 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 10 blame | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 blame | aux |
| 10 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wroth | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 blame | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 blame | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 caused | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 caused | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 caused | nsubj |
| 17 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wroth | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 brother | det |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caused | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 thrown | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 thrown | aux:pass |
| 22 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 caused | advcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 pit | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pit | det |
| 25 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thrown | obl |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pit | amod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 snakes | case |
| 28 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 full | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wroth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | King | wroth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blame | can | none | King | for that | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for that=Attribute | |||
| 3 | cause | past | King | the brother | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition brother=Patient | ||||
| 4 | throw | to-infinitive · passive | King not said here | into a pit result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into pit=Result |
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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