The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 189
And when the young man asked if the girl was carried off straight from her home, they answered no, but that a large cask was set in the forest chapel, and into this she was fastened.
Who acts: young man, huts · What happens: ask, carry off, answer, set, fasten · To what, where: girl, home, large cask, forest chapel, this · 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 (young man, huts), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 answered | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 asked | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 answered | advcl |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 carried | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 carried | aux:pass |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 carried | compound:prt |
| 13 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 16 home | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 home | nmod:poss |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 answered | nsubj |
| 19 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 answered | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 set | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 set | cc |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 set | mark |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 cask | det |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cask | amod |
| 26 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 set | aux:pass |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 answered | ccomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 chapel | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 chapel | det |
| 31 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 chapel | compound |
| 32 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 fastened | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 fastened | cc |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 this | case |
| 36 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 fastened | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 fastened | aux:pass |
| 39 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 set | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the young man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | carry off a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | the girl | girl's home | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from home=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | huts = hut | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | set | past · passive | a large cask | the forest chapel | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in chapel=Destination | ||||
| 5 | fasten | past · passive | this | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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