The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 26
Go, and add to the number of those whom it is my pleasure to torture.’
Who acts: you · What happens: go, add, be, torture · To what, where: pleasure
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 (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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 add | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 add | cc |
| 4 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 number | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 number | det |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 add | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 those | case |
| 9 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 number | nmod |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 pleasure | nsubj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pleasure | expl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pleasure | cop |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 those | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 torture | mark |
| 16 | torture | torture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pleasure | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | to the number of those | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to number=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | my pleasure | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | torture | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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