The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 80

At the end of that time he said to Vassili one day, ‘I want you to go for me to my friend the Serpent King, in his beautiful country at the world’s end.

Who acts: Mark, I, you · What happens: say, want, go · To what, where: Vassili, end, you, beautiful country · 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 (Mark, I, 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Vassili	case
10	Vassili	Vassili	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	nummod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Vassili	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 want	nsubj
16	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 want	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 want	xcomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 go	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 friend	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 friend	nmod:poss
24	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 King	det
26	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 King	compound
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 friend	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 country	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 country	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 country	nmod:poss
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 country	amod
32	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
33	at	at	ADP	_	37 end	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 world	det
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 end	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 world	case
37	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 country	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mark		Vassili		at the end of that time		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to vassili=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	want	present	I	you					tree rules
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			Mark's beautiful country at the world's end		for me; to my friend	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for i=Theme in country=Location

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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