The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 70

‘I do not know it!’ answered he, but the Vizir did not believe him, and had him bound and beaten till his back was all torn.

Who acts: I, Vizir, Hassebu · What happens: not know, answer, not believe, have, bind, beat · To what, where: place, Hassebu, back · 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, Vizir, 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	_	5 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 answered	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 know	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 believe	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 believe	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Vizir	det
14	Vizir	Vizir	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 believe	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 believe	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 believe	advmod
17	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 answered	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 believe	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	obj
23	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 had	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 beaten	cc
25	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 bound	conj
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	31 torn	mark
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 back	nmod:poss
28	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 torn	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 torn	aux:pass
30	all	all	ADV	_	31 torn	advmod
31	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 beaten	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	I	place			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	answer speech: assert	past			Hassebu		tree rules
3	not believe	past · do-support	the Vizir	Hassebu			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	have	past		Hassebu			tree rules
5	bind	participle	Hassebu not said here				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	beat	participle	Hassebu not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	tear	past · passive		Hassebu's back		all property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location 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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