The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 123
And they told him: ‘To-morrow you are to be hanged.’
Who acts: Princess · What happens: tell, hange · To what, where: soldier, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 hanged | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 hanged | punct |
| 7 | To | to | ADP | _ | 9 morrow | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 To | punct |
| 9 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hanged | obl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hanged | aux:pass |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hanged | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hanged | aux:pass |
| 14 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Princess | soldier | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | hange | present · passive | you | to morrow | tree rules |
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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