The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 197
He next hurried to the hut where the maiden lived, and entreated her parents to shut her up safely in a closet, after which he took Schippeitaro to the cask, and fastened him into it.
Who acts: man, maiden · What happens: hurry, live, entreat, shut up, take, fasten · To what, where: hut, parents, maiden, closet, Schippeitaro, cask
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 (man, maiden), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hurried | nsubj |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 hurried | advmod |
| 3 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 hut | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hut | det |
| 6 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurried | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 lived | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maiden | det |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hut | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 entreated | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 entreated | cc |
| 13 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 parents | nmod:poss |
| 15 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 entreated | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 shut | mark |
| 17 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 entreated | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shut | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 shut | compound:prt |
| 20 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 17 shut | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 closet | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 closet | det |
| 23 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shut | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 took | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 took | nsubj |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 entreated | conj |
| 29 | Schippeitaro | Schippeitaro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 cask | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cask | det |
| 32 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fastened | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fastened | cc |
| 35 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 fastened | obj |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 fastened | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | man | the hut | next property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination | |||
| 2 | live | past | the maiden | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | entreat | past | man not said here | maiden's parents | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | shut up | to-infinitive | man not said here | maiden | a closet | safely property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||
| 5 | take | past | man | Schippeitaro | the cask | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent schippeitaro=Theme to cask=Destination | |||
| 6 | fasten | past | man not said here | man | into cask | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Patient into it=Co-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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