The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 59
‘I will do you no evil,’ replied Hassebu; ‘send me home, I pray.’
Who acts: I, Hassebu · What happens: do, reply, send, pray · To what, where: you, me · 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 (I, Hassebu), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 evil | det |
| 7 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Hassebu | Hassebu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 send | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 send | punct |
| 14 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 send | iobj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 send | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pray | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 pray | nsubj |
| 19 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 send | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 send | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Hassebu | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | send | infinitive | me | home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pray | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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