The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 104
Let her flog it as hard as she will, it can never feel any pain.
Who acts: you, lady, figure · What happens: let, flog, not feel · To what, where: lady, figure, pain
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lady, figure), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | flog | flog | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flog | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 hard | advmod |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 flog | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 will | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 will | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hard | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 feel | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 feel | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 feel | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 feel | advmod |
| 14 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 pain | det |
| 16 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feel | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | lady | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flog | infinitive | lady not said here | figure | hard property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | not feel | can | figure | any pain | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=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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