The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 25
‘Rash mortal,’ said he, when the Prince was dragged before him, ‘you have deserved death, but you shall live only to suffer more cruelly.
Who acts: Rash mortal, you · What happens: say, drag, deserve, live, suffer · To what, where: mortal, death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rash mortal, 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 | _ | 3 mortal | punct |
| 2 | Rash | rash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mortal | compound |
| 3 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mortal | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mortal | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dragged | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dragged | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 dragged | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dragged | aux:pass |
| 13 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dragged | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 deserved | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 deserved | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 deserved | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 deserved | aux |
| 20 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 dragged | conj |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 deserved | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 live | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 live | cc |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 live | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 live | aux |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 suffer | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 suffer | mark |
| 29 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 live | xcomp |
| 30 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 cruelly | advmod |
| 31 | cruelly | cruelly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 suffer | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Rash mortal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | drag | past · passive | mortal | before Prince | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | deserve | present · perfect | you | death | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | shall | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | suffer | to-infinitive | you not said here | cruelly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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