The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 78
‘Well,’ thought he, ‘you’ve escaped me three times, but I think I shall get the better of you now.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: think, escape, get · To what, where: Mark, me · 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 (you, I), 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 | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 thought | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 escaped | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 escaped | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 escaped | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ve | 've | PUNCT | _ | 9 you | punct |
| 11 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 escaped | obj |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 times | nummod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 escaped | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 think | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 think | nsubj |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 think | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 better | det |
| 23 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 get | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 better | obl |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 get | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Mark | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||||
| 2 | escape | past | you | me | time | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | shall | I | now | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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