The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 5
The father flew into a rage, and flogged his son till the blood came.
Who acts: father, blood · What happens: fly, flog, come · To what, where: rage, son
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 (father, blood), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 rage | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rage | det |
| 6 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flogged | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flogged | cc |
| 9 | flogged | flog | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flogged | obj |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blood | det |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flogged | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the father | into a rage result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result | ||||
| 2 | flog | past | the father not said here | father's son | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the blood | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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