The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 83
‘In vain they punished me by all the usual methods.
Who acts: stitches · What happens: punish · To what, where: me, vain
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (stitches), 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 | _ | 5 punished | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 vain | case |
| 3 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 punished | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 punished | nsubj |
| 5 | punished | punish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 punished | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 methods | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 methods | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 methods | det |
| 10 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 methods | amod |
| 11 | methods | method | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 punished | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 punished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | past | stitches = stitch | me | vain | by all usual methods | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 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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