The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 59
See, now, the reward of your folly; for your greater punishment I will not boil you all together, but one after the other, so that he that survives may witness the dire afflictions of his unfortunate companions.’
Who acts: you, I, Thief, your · What happens: see, not boil, survive, reward, punish, afflict · To what, where: reward, you, witness, folly, unfortunate companions
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, Thief, 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 See | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 reward | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reward | det |
| 6 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 See | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 folly | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 folly | nmod:poss |
| 9 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reward | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 boil | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 punishment | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 13 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 punishment | amod |
| 14 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 boil | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 boil | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 boil | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 boil | advmod |
| 18 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 See | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 boil | obj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 boil | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 one | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 one | cc |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 boil | conj |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 other | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 other | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 one | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 survives | punct |
| 29 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 33 survives | mark |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 so | fixed |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 survives | nsubj |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 he | obj |
| 33 | survives | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 boil | parataxis |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 witness | aux |
| 35 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 survives | obj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 afflictions | det |
| 37 | dire | dire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 afflictions | amod |
| 38 | afflictions | affliction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 survives | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 companions | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 companions | nmod:poss |
| 41 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 companions | amod |
| 42 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 afflictions | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | the reward of your folly | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | not boil | future | I | you | for your greater punishment; together property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent you=Patient for punishment=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | survive | present | Thief | witness | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reward | your folly | nom reward «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | punish | your | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | afflict | Thief's unfortunate companions | nom affliction «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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