The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 73

And Hassebu said to the King: ‘It was not I: look at my back and you will see how they drove me to it.’

Who acts: Hassebu, palace, you, companions · What happens: say, not be, look, see, drive · To what, where: King, I, me, palace · 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, palace, you, companions), 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 said	cc
2	Hassebu	Hassebu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 King	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 I	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 I	punct
9	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 I	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 I	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 I	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 said	ccomp
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
14	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 back	nmod:poss
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 look	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 see	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 look	conj
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 drove	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drove	nsubj
24	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 see	advcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 drove	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drove	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hassebu		the King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient
2	not is a	past	palace	I				tree rules
3	look	infinitive					at my back	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at back=Theme
4	see	future	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	drive	past	companions = companion	me		palace		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme to it=Trajectory

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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