The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 42

At length I reached home, where I was told that my father had just been born, and that I must go at once to fetch some holy water to sprinkle him with.

Who acts: I · What happens: reach, tell, bear, go, fetch, sprinkle · To what, where: length, I, father, holy water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 reached	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 told	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux:pass
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reached	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 born	mark
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 born	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 born	aux
15	just	just	ADV	_	17 born	advmod
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 born	aux:pass
17	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 told	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 go	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 go	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 go	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reached	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 go	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fetch	mark
27	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	advcl
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 water	det
29	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 water	amod
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fetch	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 sprinkle	mark
32	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 fetch	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sprinkle	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	32 sprinkle	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	I			length	home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		I				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	bear	past · perfect · passive		my father				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	go	must	I					vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
5	fetch	to-infinitive	I not said here	some holy water				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
6	sprinkle	to-infinitive	I not said here		father			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination

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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