The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 82
And when the Vizir comes to you and asks, “Did you drink what I gave you?” you must answer, “I did, and this is for you,” and he will drink it and die! and your soul will rest.’
Who acts: Vizir, you, I, this, soul · What happens: come, ask, drink, give, answer, do · To what, where: you, water · 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 (Vizir, you, I, this), 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 | _ | 9 asks | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 comes | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Vizir | det |
| 4 | Vizir | Vizir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 asks | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 comes | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asks | cc |
| 9 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drink | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 drink | punct |
| 12 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 drink | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 drink | nsubj |
| 14 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asks | ccomp |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 gave | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 drink | ccomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 drink | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 drink | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 answer | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 answer | aux |
| 23 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 drink | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 did | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 did | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 did | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 answer | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 you | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 you | cc |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 you | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 you | cop |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 asks | ccomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 you | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 you | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 drink | cc |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 drink | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 drink | aux |
| 39 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asks | conj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 drink | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 die | cc |
| 42 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 drink | conj |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 42 die | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 rest | cc |
| 45 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 soul | nmod:poss |
| 46 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 rest | nsubj |
| 47 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 rest | aux |
| 48 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 drink | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asks | punct |
| 50 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the Vizir | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | drink in a quote | past · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | past | I | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Theme | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | must | you | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | this | for you | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | drink | future | Vizir | water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 9 | die | infinitive | Vizir not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 10 | rest | future | your soul | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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