The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 96
Now we’ll beat you black and blue!
Who acts: we · What happens: beat · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | 4 beat | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 beat | aux |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 beat | obj |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beat | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 blue | cc |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 black | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | future | we | you | now | black property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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