The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 33

Mark guessed at once that the child must be his godson, asked to see him, and said:

Who acts: Mark, child · What happens: guess, be, ask, see, say · To what, where: godson, Mark · 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 (Mark, child), 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	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 guessed	nsubj
2	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 guessed	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 godson	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 godson	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 godson	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 godson	cop
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 godson	nmod:poss
11	godson	godson	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guessed	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 guessed	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 guessed	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	guess	past	Mark		vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at once=Value
2	is a	must	the child	Mark's godson	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	Mark not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mark not said here	Mark	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	Mark not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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