The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 10

The third whispered, ‘Call him Vassili, and give him all the property of the hard-hearted man in whose loft we stand, and who wanted to drive us from his door.’

Who acts: you, we · What happens: whisper, call, give, stand, want, drive · To what, where: Ivan, property, loft, us, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 third	det
2	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 whispered	advmod
3	whispered	whisper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Call	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Call	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Call	punct
6	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Call	obj
8	Vassili	Vassili	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Call	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 give	cc
11	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 Call	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 property	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 property	det
15	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 man	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
18	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hearted	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 hard	punct
20	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 property	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 loft	case
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 loft	nmod:poss
24	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 man	nmod
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 stand	nsubj
26	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 loft	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wanted	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wanted	cc
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 wanted	nsubj
30	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 give	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 drive	mark
32	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wanted	xcomp
33	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 drive	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 door	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 door	nmod:poss
36	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 drive	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Call	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 Call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	participle	you not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	imperative	you not said here		Ivan		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	give	infinitive	you not said here	all property of the hearted man in the hearted man in loft's loft	Ivan		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient property=Theme
4	stand	present	we	the hearted man in the hearted man in loft's loft's loft not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loft=Stimulus
5	want	past					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	drive not said to happen	to-infinitive		us		Ivan's door	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent we=Theme from door=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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