The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 133
The man in the boat will then have to take his place.’
Who acts: man · What happens: have, take · To what, where: place
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 (man), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 boat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 have | advmod |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 place | nmod:poss |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | the man in the boat | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | the man in the boat not said here | man's place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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