The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 48

Then the abbot told him of the wonderful way in which Vassili had come to them, and Mark saw clearly that this must be his godson whom he had twice tried to kill.

Who acts: abbot, Vassili, Mark, this, boy · What happens: tell, come, see, be, try, kill · To what, where: boy, voices, wonderful way, godson · 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 (abbot, Vassili, Mark, this), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 abbot	det
3	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 come	obl
12	Vassili	Vassili	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 come	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 way	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
19	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
21	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	20 saw	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 godson	mark
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 godson	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 godson	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 godson	cop
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 godson	nmod:poss
27	godson	godson	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	xcomp
28	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 tried	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tried	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 tried	aux
31	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 tried	advmod
32	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 godson	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 kill	mark
34	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 tried	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the abbot		boy		then	of the wonderful way	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	come	past · perfect	Vassili		voices = voice	the wonderful way			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
3	see	past	Mark					clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	must	this	boy's godson					tree rules
5	try	past · perfect	boy	boy's godson				twice property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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