The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 114
The girl said: ‘You have not been sent here to collect rents, but for your own destruction, and that the serpent may devour you.’
Who acts: girl, serpent, your · What happens: say, not send, collect, devour, destroy · To what, where: You, rents · 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, serpent, your), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 sent | advmod |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 sent | aux:pass |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | conj |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 sent | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 collect | mark |
| 13 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sent | advcl |
| 14 | rents | rent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 collect | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 destruction | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 destruction | cc |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 destruction | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 destruction | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 destruction | amod |
| 20 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 devour | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 devour | cc |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 devour | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 serpent | det |
| 25 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 devour | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 devour | aux |
| 27 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | parataxis |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 devour | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 devour | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 devour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the girl | for your own destruction | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not send | present · perfect · passive | You | here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | collect | to-infinitive | rents | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | devour | may | the serpent | you | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 5 | destroy | your | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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