The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 199
And they all got a beating for not having kept watch better.
Who acts: thieves · What happens: get, not have, keep · To what, where: beating, kept watch
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thieves), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 beating | det |
| 6 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 having | mark |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 having | advmod |
| 9 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 got | advcl |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 watch | amod |
| 11 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 having | obj |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 having | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | thieves = thief | a beating | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beating=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not have | gerund | thieves = thief not said here | kept watch | good property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Patient | |||
| 3 | keep | participle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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