The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 181
Now the tables are turned; you are in my power, and I will be revenged on you for your crimes.’
Who acts: you, your · What happens: turn, be, revenge, incriminate · To what, where: tables, power, I
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tables | det |
| 3 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | aux:pass |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 power | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 power | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 power | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 power | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 power | nmod:poss |
| 11 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 revenged | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 revenged | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 revenged | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 revenged | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 revenged | aux:pass |
| 17 | revenged | revenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 turned | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 revenged | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 crimes | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 crimes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | crimes | crime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 revenged | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present · passive | the tables | now | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | my power | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | revenge | future · passive | I | on you; for your crimes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | incriminate | your | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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