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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 64

Then the maiden said, ‘You ought to have a heavy punishment because you have presumed to watch my secret doings in the moonlight.

Who acts: maiden, You · What happens: say, have, presume, watch · To what, where: heavy punishment, secret doings, moonlight · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (maiden, 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

advmoddetnsubjpunctpunctnsubjauxmarkccompdetamodobjmarknsubjauxadvclmarkxcompnmod:possamodobjcasedetoblpunctrootThenADVtheDETmaidenNOUNsaidVERB,PUNCT‘PUNCTYouPRONoughtAUXtoPARThaveVERBaDETheavyADJpunishmentNOUNbecauseSCONJyouPRONhaveAUXpresumedVERBtoPARTwatchVERBmyPRONsecretADJdoingsNOUNinADPtheDETmoonlightNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem4 saidadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 maidendet
3maidenmaidenNOUNNumber=Sing4 saidnsubj
4saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5,,PUNCT_10 havepunct
6‘'PUNCT_10 havepunct
7YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs10 havensubj
8oughtoughtAUXVerbForm=Fin10 haveaux
9totoPART_10 havemark
10havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf4 saidccomp
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 punishmentdet
12heavyheavyADJDegree=Pos13 punishmentamod
13punishmentpunishmentNOUNNumber=Sing10 haveobj
14becausebecauseSCONJ_17 presumedmark
15youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs17 presumednsubj
16havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 presumedaux
17presumedpresumeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part10 haveadvcl
18totoPART_19 watchmark
19watchwatchVERBVerbForm=Inf17 presumedxcomp
20mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 doingsnmod:poss
21secretsecretADJDegree=Pos22 doingsamod
22doingsdoingNOUNNumber=Plur19 watchobj
23ininADP_25 moonlightcase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 moonlightdet
25moonlightmoonlightNOUNNumber=Sing19 watchobl
26..PUNCT_4 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastthe maidenthenvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2haveoughtYoua heavy punishmentvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Patient
3presumepresent · perfectyouvn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4watchto-infinitiveyou not said heremy secret doingsthe moonlightvn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doing=Theme

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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