The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 66
In the letter was written, quite plainly: ‘When you receive this letter, get ready for a wedding, and let the bearer be married next day to my daughter, Anastasia.
Who acts: you · What happens: write, receive, get, let, marry · To what, where: letter, bearer
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 letter | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 letter | det |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 written | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 written | aux:pass |
| 5 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 plainly | punct |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 plainly | advmod |
| 8 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 5 written | advmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 11 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 receive | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 receive | nsubj |
| 13 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | advcl |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 letter | det |
| 15 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 receive | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 receive | punct |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 written | parataxis |
| 18 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 get | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 wedding | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wedding | det |
| 21 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ready | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 let | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 let | cc |
| 24 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bearer | det |
| 26 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 married | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 married | aux:pass |
| 28 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 let | xcomp |
| 29 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 day | amod |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 married | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 daughter | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 married | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Anastasia | punct |
| 35 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 daughter | appos |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · passive | the letter | plainly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | receive | present | you | this letter | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | marry | infinitive · passive | the bearer | day | to my daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to daughter=Co-Patient |
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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