The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 5
Her father could not bear to refuse her, and the three beggars were allowed to sleep in a loft, and at night, when everyone in the house was fast asleep, little Anastasia got up, climbed up to the loft, and peeped in.
Who acts: father, three beggars, everyone, little Anastasia · What happens: not bear, refuse, allow, sleep, be, get up · To what, where: daddy, three beggars, loft
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 (father, three beggars, everyone, little Anastasia), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bear | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bear | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 bear | advmod |
| 5 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 refuse | mark |
| 7 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bear | xcomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 refuse | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 allowed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 allowed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beggars | det |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 beggars | nummod |
| 13 | beggars | beggar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 allowed | aux:pass |
| 15 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bear | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sleep | mark |
| 17 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 allowed | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 loft | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 loft | det |
| 20 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sleep | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 night | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 night | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 night | case |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bear | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 asleep | punct |
| 26 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 33 asleep | mark |
| 27 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 33 asleep | nsubj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 house | det |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 everyone | nmod |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 asleep | cop |
| 32 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 asleep | advmod |
| 33 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 night | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 got | punct |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Anastasia | amod |
| 36 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 got | nsubj |
| 37 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 asleep | conj |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 got | compound:prt |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 climbed | punct |
| 40 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 got | parataxis |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 climbed | compound:prt |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 loft | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 loft | det |
| 44 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 climbed | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 peeped | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 peeped | cc |
| 47 | peeped | peep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 climbed | conj |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 peeped | compound:prt |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | could | daddy's father | night | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | refuse | to-infinitive | daddy's father not said here | daddy | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | allow | past · passive | the three beggars | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | sleep not said to happen | to-infinitive | the three beggars not said here | a loft | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in loft=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | everyone | asleep, fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | get up | past | little Anastasia | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | climb up | past | the loft | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to loft=Destination | |||||
| 8 | peep in | participle | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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