The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 64

I stole cautiously up to him, and gave him such a kick that he uttered a loud scream, and let fall a parchment on which was written, “The cake is mine, and the beardless one goes empty-handed.”’

Who acts: I, fox, cake, beardless one · What happens: steal, give, utter, let, fall, write · To what, where: kick, fox, loud scream, parchment · 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, fox, cake, beardless one), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	_	2 stole	advmod
4	up	up	ADP	_	6 him	case
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stole	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 kick	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 kick	det
13	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 uttered	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 uttered	nsubj
16	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gave	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 scream	det
18	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 scream	amod
19	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 uttered	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 stole	parataxis
23	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 parchment	det
25	parchment	parchment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fall	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 written	obl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 written	aux:pass
29	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 parchment	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 mine	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 mine	punct
32	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cake	det
33	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 mine	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 mine	cop
35	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 written	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 goes	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 goes	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 one	det
39	beardless	beardless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 one	amod
40	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 goes	nsubj
41	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stole	parataxis
42	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 handed	amod
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 empty	punct
44	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 goes	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 goes	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	41 goes	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	steal	past	I				up fox; cautiously property	tree rules
2	give	past	I not said here	such kick	fox			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kick=Theme
3	utter speech: other	past	fox	a loud scream				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scream=Topic
4	let	infinitive						tree rules
5	fall	infinitive		a parchment				vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient parchment=Result
6	write	past · passive				a parchment		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on which=Destination
7	is a in a quote	present	the cake	fox				tree rules
8	go in a quote	present	the beardless one					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	hand in a quote	participle	the beardless one not said here					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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