The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 64
And Hassebu swore, and the king ordered his soldiers to take Hassebu in sight of his native city.
Who acts: Hassebu, king, soldiers · What happens: swear, order, take, sight · To what, where: soldiers, Hassebu, sight, native city
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, king, soldiers), 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 | _ | 3 swore | cc |
| 2 | Hassebu | Hassebu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 swore | nsubj |
| 3 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ordered | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | nsubj |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swore | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ordered | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ordered | xcomp |
| 13 | Hassebu | Hassebu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 city | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 city | nmod:poss |
| 18 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 city | amod |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sight | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | Hassebu | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | order | past | the king | King's soldiers | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | King's soldiers not said here | Hassebu | sight of King's native city | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hassebu=Value in sight=Location | |||
| 4 | sight | King's native city | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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