The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 57
Vassili had a good voyage, and on landing set off on foot for Mark’s home.
Who acts: Vassili · What happens: have, set off · To what, where: good voyage, foot
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 (Vassili), 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 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 voyage | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 voyage | amod |
| 5 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 8 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 10 set | mark |
| 9 | landing | land | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 set | aux:pass |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 foot | case |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 15 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 home | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Mark | case |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Vassili | a good voyage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Patient | ||||
| 2 | set off | gerund · passive | Vassili not said here | foot | for Mark's home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V» |
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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