The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 62
They blew on it and gave it back to him, saying: ‘Now go and give the letter to Mark’s wife.
Who acts: orders · What happens: blow, give back, say, go, give · To what, where: letter, Mark, wife · 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 (orders), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 blew | nsubj |
| 2 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 blew | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gave | cc |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blew | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 gave | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 gave | advcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 15 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 go | advmod |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 saying | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 give | cc |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 letter | det |
| 20 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 wife | case |
| 22 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Mark | case |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 letter | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | orders = order | letter | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give back | past | orders = order not said here | letter | Mark | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | orders = order not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | the letter | Mark's wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to wife=Recipient |
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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