The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 69

The moment he had slipped off his robe he was taken before the Vizir, who said to him, ‘Lead us to the place where the King of the Snakes lives.’

Who acts: Hassebu, Vizir, King · What happens: slip off, take, say, lead, live · To what, where: robe, moment, Hassebu, us, place · 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, Vizir, King), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moment	det
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taken	nsubj:pass
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slipped	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slipped	aux
5	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 moment	acl:relcl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 slipped	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 robe	nmod:poss
8	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slipped	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 taken	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	aux:pass
11	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 Vizir	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Vizir	det
14	Vizir	Vizir	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 taken	obl:agent
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Vizir	advcl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Lead	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 Lead	punct
22	Lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	parataxis
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 Lead	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 place	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 place	det
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Lead	obl
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 lives	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 King	det
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 lives	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Snakes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Snakes	det
32	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 King	nmod
33	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 place	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 taken	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	slip off	past · perfect	Hassebu	Hassebu's robe			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent robe=Patient
2	take	past · passive	the Vizir	the moment			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Vizir		Hassebu		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	lead	infinitive		us		the place	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme to place=Destination
5	live	present	the King of the Snakes				vn exist-47.1-1 «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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