The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 63
But Hassebu begged so hard that at last the king said, ‘Swear that when you get home you will not go to bathe where many people are gathered.’
Who acts: Hassebu, last king, you · What happens: beg, say, swear, get, not go, bathe · To what, where: many people · 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 (Hassebu, last king, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 begged | cc |
| 2 | Hassebu | Hassebu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 begged | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 said | mark |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 last | case |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 king | amod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Swear | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Swear | punct |
| 14 | Swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 get | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | advcl |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 get | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 go | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 go | advmod |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Swear | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 bathe | mark |
| 25 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | xcomp |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 gathered | advmod |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 people | amod |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gathered | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 gathered | aux:pass |
| 30 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 bathe | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Hassebu | hard property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the last king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | swear | infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | get | present | you | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | not go | future | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | bathe | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | gather | present · passive | many people | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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