The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 24
And as you have found it, Hassebu, it is you who must go inside and dip out the honey and give to us, and we will take it to the town and sell it, and will divide the money with you.’
Who acts: you, money, we · What happens: find, be, go, dip out, give, take · To what, where: money, you, honey, us, town
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 (you, money, we), 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 | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 found | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | aux |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 you | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hassebu | punct |
| 8 | Hassebu | Hassebu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 you | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 you | cop |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dip | cc |
| 18 | dip | dip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 dip | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 honey | det |
| 21 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dip | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 give | cc |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 dip | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 give | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 take | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 take | cc |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 take | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 take | aux |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | parataxis |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 take | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 town | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 town | det |
| 34 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sell | cc |
| 36 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 take | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 sell | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 divide | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 divide | cc |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 divide | aux |
| 41 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 take | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 money | det |
| 43 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 divide | obj |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 you | case |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 divide | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · perfect | you | money | Hassebu obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | present | money | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | must | you | inside property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dip out | infinitive | you not said here | the honey | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location honey=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | you not said here | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to we=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | take | future | we | money | the town | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to town=Destination | |||
| 7 | sell | infinitive | we not said here | money | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 8 | divide | future | we not said here | the money | with you | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent money=Patient with you=Instrument |
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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