The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 99

The brothers were at once set at liberty, while Sir Red, for his wickedness, was hanged on the highest tree that could be found, and so he got the reward he deserved.

Who acts: Red · What happens: set, hange, find, get, deserve · To what, where: brothers, liberty, Red, highest tree, reward

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	aux:pass
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 set	obl
6	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 liberty	case
8	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hanged	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 hanged	mark
11	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Red	nmod:desc
12	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 hanged	nsubj:pass
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wickedness	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 wickedness	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wickedness	nmod:poss
16	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Red	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Red	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hanged	aux:pass
19	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 set	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 tree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tree	det
22	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 tree	amod
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hanged	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 found	nsubj:pass
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 found	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 found	aux:pass
27	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 tree	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 got	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 got	cc
30	so	so	ADV	_	32 got	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 got	nsubj
32	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 reward	det
34	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 got	obj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 deserved	nsubj
36	deserved	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 reward	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	set	past · passive		the brothers	liberty	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at once=Destination
2	hange	past · passive		Red Sir	the highest tree	tree rules
3	find	could · passive		the highest tree		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	get	past	Red	the reward		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reward=Stimulus
5	deserve	past	Red	the reward not said here		tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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