The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 112
As soon as she saw him she said: ‘Oh, Vassili, what brings you to this accursed place?’
Who acts: girl · What happens: see, say, bring, accurs · To what, where: sun, Vassili, accursed place · 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 (girl), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 said | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 brings | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 brings | punct |
| 11 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 13 Vassili | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oh | punct |
| 13 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 brings | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brings | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 brings | nsubj |
| 16 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 brings | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 place | det |
| 20 | accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 place | amod |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brings | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 brings | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | girl | sun | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring | present | Vassili | this accursed place | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to place=Destination | ||||
| 4 | accurs | participle | tree rules |
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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