The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 30
And the horrible elves are so ill-natured that if anyone sets one foot on their land he is instantly punished.
Who acts: anyone, land · What happens: nature, set, punish · To what, where: horrible elves, one foot, land, bade
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anyone, land), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 natured | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 elves | det |
| 3 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 elves | amod |
| 4 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 natured | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 natured | aux:pass |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 natured | advmod |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 natured | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ill | punct |
| 9 | natured | nature | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 sets | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 sets | mark |
| 12 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 sets | nsubj |
| 13 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 natured | advcl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 foot | nummod |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sets | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 land | nmod:poss |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sets | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 punished | aux:pass |
| 21 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 22 punished | advmod |
| 22 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 land | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 natured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nature | present · passive | the horrible elves | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | set | present | anyone | one foot | elves's land | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on land=Destination | |||
| 3 | punish | present · passive | elves's land not said here | bade | instantly property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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