The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 74
‘Who has beaten you like this?’ asked the King.
What happens: beat, ask · To what, where: you, King
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 beaten | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 beaten | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beaten | aux |
| 4 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 beaten | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 beaten | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 beaten | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 beaten | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present · perfect | you | like this | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
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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