The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 74
In either case he thought that the punishment would be severe.
Who acts: hermit, punishment · What happens: think, be · To what, where: case · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit, punishment), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 case | case |
| 2 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 case | det |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 severe | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 punishment | det |
| 8 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 severe | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 severe | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 severe | cop |
| 11 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | hermit | either case | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | would | the punishment | severe property | tree rules |
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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