The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 20

‘May you go blind!’ exclaimed the emperor in wrath; ‘what business is it of yours?’ and boxed Petru’s ears soundly.

Who acts: you, business · What happens: go, exclaim, be, box · To what, where: emperor, wrath, business, ears · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, business), 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	_	4 go	punct
2	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 exclaimed	ccomp
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 emperor	det
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 exclaimed	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 wrath	case
12	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 exclaimed	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 exclaimed	parataxis
16	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 it	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 it	cop
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 what	acl:relcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 yours	case
20	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 it	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 boxed	cc
24	boxed	box	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 what	conj
25	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 ears	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Petru	case
27	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 boxed	obj
28	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	24 boxed	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	may	you			blind property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	exclaim speech: express	past		the emperor	wrath		tree rules
3	is a	present	business	business		of yours	tree rules
4	box	past		Petru's ears		soundly property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Co-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 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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