The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 119
‘Take him away, and give him fifty lashes.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take away, give · To what, where: king, fifty lashes
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 Take | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 give | cc |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 lashes | nummod |
| 10 | lashes | lash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | imperative | you not said here | king | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | fifty lashes | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient lash=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 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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