The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 116

The girl quickly pushed Vassili into a chest under the bed, locked it and whispered: ‘Listen to what the serpent and I talk about.’

Who acts: girl, I · What happens: push, lock, whisper, listen, talk about · To what, where: Vassili, chest, bed

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, I), 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	4 pushed	nsubj
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 pushed	advmod
4	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Vassili	Vassili	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pushed	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 chest	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chest	det
8	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pushed	obl
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 bed	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bed	det
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pushed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 locked	punct
13	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pushed	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 locked	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 whispered	cc
16	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 locked	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Listen	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 Listen	punct
19	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 whispered	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 what	case
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 Listen	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 serpent	det
23	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 what	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 talk	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 talk	nsubj
26	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 Listen	conj
27	about	about	ADP	_	26 talk	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pushed	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	push	past	the girl	Vassili	a chest	under the bed; quickly property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vassili=Theme into chest=Destination
2	lock	past		bed			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	whisper speech: assert	past					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	listen	infinitive					tree rules
5	talk about	present	I				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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