The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 143
When he was on the other side Vassili said to the whale: ‘Throw up those twelve ships of Mark’s which you swallowed three years ago.’
Who acts: whale, Vassili, you · What happens: be, say, throw up, swallow · To what, where: other side, twelve ships · 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 (whale, Vassili, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 side | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 side | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 side | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 side | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 side | amod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | advcl |
| 8 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 whale | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 whale | det |
| 12 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Throw | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Throw | punct |
| 15 | Throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 Throw | compound:prt |
| 17 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 ships | det |
| 18 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 ships | nummod |
| 19 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Throw | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 21 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 which | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Mark | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 swallowed | obl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 swallowed | nsubj |
| 25 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ships | acl:relcl |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 years | nummod |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 25 swallowed | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Throw | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | whale | the other side | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Vassili | to the whale | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to whale=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | throw up | infinitive | that twelve ships | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | |||||
| 4 | swallow | past | you | of that twelve ships; ago property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «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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