The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 139
In all haste the lovely girl helped Vassili out of the chest, and showed him part of his way back.
Who acts: lovely girl · What happens: help, show · To what, where: Vassili, haste, part, King
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 (lovely 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 haste | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 haste | det |
| 3 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 helped | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 5 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 helped | nsubj |
| 7 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 helped | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 chest | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 chest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chest | det |
| 12 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 helped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 showed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 showed | cc |
| 15 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 helped | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 showed | iobj |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 showed | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nmod |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 way | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | the lovely girl | Vassili | all haste | out the chest | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vassili=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | show | past | the lovely girl not said here | part of King's way | King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient part=Topic |
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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