The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 11
‘We have every right to beat him,’ they replied; ‘he has just devoured a newly-killed pig.’
Who acts: We, dogs, Martin · What happens: have, beat, reply, devour, kill · To what, where: right, Martin, killed pig · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, dogs, Martin), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 right | det |
| 5 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 beat | mark |
| 7 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 right | acl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 beat | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 devoured | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 devoured | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 devoured | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 devoured | aux |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 devoured | advmod |
| 18 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pig | det |
| 20 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 22 killed | advmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 newly | punct |
| 22 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 pig | amod |
| 23 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 devoured | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | We | every right | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | ||||
| 2 | beat | to-infinitive | We not said here | Martin | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | dogs = dog | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | devour | present · perfect | Martin | a killed pig | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient | ||||
| 5 | kill | participle | newly property | 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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