The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 14
And his mother answered, ‘Very well; to-morrow I will buy him a donkey, and you can all go together.’
Who acts: mother, I, you · What happens: answer, buy, go together · To what, where: donkey, Hassebu · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, I, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 well | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 well | punct |
| 7 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 8 well | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 answered | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 buy | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 morrow | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 to | punct |
| 12 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buy | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 buy | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 buy | aux |
| 15 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 buy | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 donkey | det |
| 18 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buy | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 go | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 go | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 go | aux |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 go | advmod |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 buy | conj |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 go | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 buy | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Hassebu's mother | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | buy | future | I | a donkey | Hassebu | to morrow | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary donkey=Theme | ||
| 3 | go together | can | you | all, together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 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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