The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 26
Iwanich was much horrified at the sight before him, and asked the man what terrible crime he had committed to be punished in this dreadful fashion.
What happens: horrify, ask, commit, punish · To what, where: Iwanich, sight, man, terrible crime, dreadful fashion
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 horrified | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 horrified | aux:pass |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 horrified | advmod |
| 4 | horrified | horrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sight | det |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horrified | obl |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sight | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 horrified | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 committed | obj |
| 16 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 crime | amod |
| 17 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 committed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 committed | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 committed | aux |
| 20 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 punished | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 punished | aux:pass |
| 23 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 committed | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 fashion | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 fashion | det |
| 26 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fashion | amod |
| 27 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 punished | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 horrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | horrify | past · passive | Iwanich | the sight before sight | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | commit | past · perfect · passive | terrible crime | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | punish | to-infinitive · passive | this dreadful fashion | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» |
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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