The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 59
‘I am going to the house of Mark the Merchant, and have a letter for his wife,’ replied Vassili.
Who acts: I, Vassili · What happens: go, have, reply · To what, where: house, letter · 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 (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Mark | case |
| 9 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Merchant | det |
| 11 | Merchant | Merchant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mark | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 letter | det |
| 16 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 wife | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 letter | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 22 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 replied | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | the house of Mark | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a letter | for Mark's wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Vassili | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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