The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 64
Tell him these two ruffians are beating me black and blue.’
Who acts: you, two ruffians · What happens: tell, beat · To what, where: bathroom, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, two ruffians), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 ruffians | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ruffians | nummod |
| 5 | ruffians | ruffian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 beating | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 beating | aux |
| 7 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 beating | obj |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beating | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 blue | cc |
| 11 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 black | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | bathroom | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | beat | present · progressive | this two ruffians | me | black property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=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 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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