The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 148
When they had crossed over, Vassili said: ‘Let the next man who comes stay in the boat, but do you step on shore, push the boat off, and you will be free, and the other man must take your place.
Who acts: windows, Vassili, next man, you, other man · What happens: cross over, say, let, come, stay, step · To what, where: next man, boat, shore, place · 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 (windows, Vassili, next 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 crossed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crossed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crossed | aux |
| 4 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 crossed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 crossed | punct |
| 7 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Let | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Let | punct |
| 11 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Let | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 comes | nsubj |
| 16 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | acl:relcl |
| 17 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 comes | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 boat | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boat | det |
| 20 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stay | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 step | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 step | cc |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 step | aux |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 step | nsubj |
| 25 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Let | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 shore | case |
| 27 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 step | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 push | punct |
| 29 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Let | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 boat | det |
| 31 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 push | obj |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 push | compound:prt |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 free | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 free | cc |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 free | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 free | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 free | cop |
| 38 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 take | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 take | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 man | det |
| 42 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 man | amod |
| 43 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 take | nsubj |
| 44 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 take | aux |
| 45 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 46 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 place | nmod:poss |
| 47 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 take | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross over | past · perfect | windows = window | over property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Vassili | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | the next man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | present | the next man | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stay | present | the next man not said here | the boat | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boat=Location | ||||
| 6 | step | present · do-support | you | shore | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | push off | infinitive | the boat | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is | future | you | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | take | must | the other man | your 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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