The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 34
‘I had to punish him for a fault, and he has run away.’
Who acts: I, father · What happens: have, punish, run away · To what, where: father
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father), 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 | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 punish | mark |
| 5 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 punish | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 fault | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fault | det |
| 9 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 punish | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 run | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 run | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 run | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 run | aux |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 had | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 run | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | punish | to-infinitive | I not said here | father | for a fault | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient for fault=Theme | |||
| 3 | run away | present · perfect | father | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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