The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 67
So the Vizir had set people to watch at the public baths, to see if such a man came there.
Who acts: man · What happens: set, watch, see, come · To what, where: Vizir, public baths
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 (man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Vizir | det |
| 3 | Vizir | Vizir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 watch | mark |
| 8 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 set | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 baths | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 baths | det |
| 11 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 baths | amod |
| 12 | baths | bath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 watch | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 watch | conj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 man | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | advcl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · perfect · passive | the Vizir | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme people=Destination | |||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | the public baths | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bath=Location | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | come a condition, not said to happen | past | such man | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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