The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 55

Then Mark wrote a letter to his wife and gave it to Vassili to take to her, and this was what was in the letter: ‘When the bearer of this arrives, take him into the soap factory, and when you pass near the great boiler, push him in.

Who acts: Mark, this, bearer, you · What happens: write, give, take, be, arrive, pass · To what, where: letter, wife, Vassili, bearer, soap factory, great boiler

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, this, bearer, you), 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	3 wrote	advmod
2	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 letter	det
5	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wife	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 letter	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrote	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Vassili	case
13	Vassili	Vassili	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 gave	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 letter	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 letter	cc
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 letter	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 letter	cop
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 letter	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 letter	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 letter	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 letter	det
26	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 take	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	36 take	punct
29	When	when	SCONJ	_	34 arrives	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bearer	det
31	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 arrives	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 this	case
33	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 bearer	nmod
34	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 take	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 arrives	punct
36	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wrote	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 take	obj
38	into	into	ADP	_	41 factory	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 factory	det
40	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 factory	compound
41	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 take	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 push	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 push	cc
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 pass	advmod
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 pass	nsubj
46	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 push	advcl
47	near	near	ADP	_	50 boiler	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 boiler	det
49	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 boiler	amod
50	boiler	boiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 pass	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 pass	punct
52	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 take	advcl
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 push	obj
54	in	in	ADP	_	52 push	compound:prt
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	write	past	Mark	a letter	Mark's wife		then	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to wife=Recipient
2	give	past	Mark not said here	letter	Vassili			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to vassili=Recipient
3	take	to-infinitive	Mark not said here		Vassili			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to she=Result
4	is	past	this			the letter		tree rules
5	arrive	present	the bearer of this					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	take	infinitive	Mark not said here	bearer		the soap factory		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into factory=Destination
7	pass	present	you			the great boiler		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near boiler=Location
8	push in	infinitive	Mark not said here	bearer				vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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