The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 196
Schippeitaro’s master was not at all willing to give him in charge to a man of whom he knew nothing, but in the end he consented, and the youth led the dog away, promising faithfully to return him next day to his master.
Who acts: master, man, youth · What happens: not be, give, know, consent, lead away, promise · To what, where: SCHIPPEITARO, charge, nothing, end, dog, man
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 (master, man, youth), 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 | Schippeitaro | Schippeitaro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 master | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Schippeitaro | case |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 willing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 willing | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 willing | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 willing | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 willing | det |
| 8 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 willing | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 charge | case |
| 13 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 whom | case |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 man | nmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 knew | nsubj |
| 20 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 whom | acl:relcl |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 knew | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 consented | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 consented | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 end | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 end | det |
| 26 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 consented | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 consented | nsubj |
| 28 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 willing | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 led | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 led | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 youth | det |
| 32 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 led | nsubj |
| 33 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 willing | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 dog | det |
| 35 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 led | obj |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 led | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 promising | punct |
| 38 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 led | advcl |
| 39 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 38 promising | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 return | mark |
| 41 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 promising | xcomp |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 return | obj |
| 43 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 day | amod |
| 44 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 return | obl:unmarked |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 master | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 master | nmod:poss |
| 47 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 return | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Schippeitaro's master | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | Schippeitaro's master not said here | SCHIPPEITARO | charge | to a man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to man=Recipient | ||
| 3 | know | past | man | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | consent | past | man | in the end | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | lead away | past | the youth | the dog | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | |||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | gerund | the youth not said here | faithfully property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | the youth not said here | man | man's master | day | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to master=Destination |
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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