The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 82

Then he spoke to them with a mighty and terrible voice, and said, ‘Because you have dared to come here, I lay upon you the punishment.

Who acts: king, you, I · What happens: speak, say, dare, come, lay · To what, where: men, punishment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 spoke	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	11 voice	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 voice	det
8	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 voice	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 terrible	cc
10	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mighty	conj
11	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dared	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 dared	punct
17	Because	because	SCONJ	_	20 dared	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 dared	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dared	aux
20	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 come	mark
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dared	xcomp
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 come	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dared	conj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 lay	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 punishment	det
30	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lay	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	king		men = man		then	with a mighty voice	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	king not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	dare	present · perfect	you						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	to-infinitive	you not said here			here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lay	present	I	the punishment				upon you	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme upon you=Destination

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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