The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 188

‘To-morrow night,’ said they, ‘the horrible creature will come for his dinner, and the cries you have heard were uttered by the girl before you, upon whom the lot has fallen.’

Who acts: huts, horrible creature, you, girl, lot · What happens: say, come, hear, utter, fall · To what, where: cries · 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 (huts, horrible creature, you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	5 night	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 To	punct
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 night	compound
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 creature	det
13	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 creature	amod
14	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 dinner	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dinner	nmod:poss
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 uttered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 uttered	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cries	det
23	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 uttered	nsubj:pass
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 heard	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 heard	aux
26	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 cries	acl:relcl
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 uttered	aux:pass
28	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 girl	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 girl	det
31	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 uttered	obl
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 uttered	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 whom	punct
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 whom	case
36	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 uttered	obl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 lot	det
38	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fallen	nsubj
39	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 fallen	aux
40	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 whom	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	huts = hut		night		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	come	future	the horrible creature			for creature's dinner	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	present · perfect	you	the cries not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
4	utter speech: other	past · passive	the girl	the cries	before you		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
5	fall	present · perfect	the lot				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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