The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 146
Vassili went on further till he reached the ferry, where the old man asked: ‘Did you think of me?’
Who acts: Vassili, whale, old man, you · What happens: go on, reach, ask, think · To what, where: ferry
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 (Vassili, whale, old man, 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 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | further | further | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 reached | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ferry | det |
| 9 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 asked | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ferry | acl:relcl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 18 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 think | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 think | nsubj |
| 20 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 think | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Vassili | further property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | whale | the ferry | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ferry=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the old man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past · do-support | you | of me | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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