The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 69
They dressed Vassili in fine clothes and next day he was married to Anastasia.
Who acts: orders · What happens: dress, marry · To what, where: Vassili, fine clothes, bearer, Anastasia
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 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dressed | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 clothes | case |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clothes | amod |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 dressed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 married | cc |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 married | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 married | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 married | aux:pass |
| 12 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dressed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Anastasia | case |
| 14 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 married | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | orders = order | Vassili | fine clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vassili=Patient | |||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | bearer | Anastasia | day | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to anastasia=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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