The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 58
On the way he met three beggars, who asked him: ‘Where are you going, Vassili?’
Who acts: Mark, three beggars, you · What happens: meet, ask, go · To what, where: three beggars, way, Mark, Vassili
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, three beggars, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 beggars | nummod |
| 7 | beggars | beggar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 met | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 beggars | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 14 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 going | advmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 met | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Vassili | punct |
| 19 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 going | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Mark | three beggars | the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | three beggars | Mark | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | you | Vassili | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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