The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 82

I want you to ask for the rent for those twelve years and also to find out from him what has become of my twelve ships which sailed for his country three years ago.’

Who acts: I, you, twelve ships · What happens: want, ask, find out, become, sail · To what, where: you

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 (I, you, twelve ships), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 want	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 ask	mark
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 rent	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rent	det
8	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 years	det
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 find	cc
14	also	also	ADV	_	16 find	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 find	mark
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 find	compound:prt
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	obl
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 become	nsubj
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 become	aux
22	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 find	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 ships	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 ships	nmod:poss
25	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 ships	nummod
26	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 become	obl
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 sailed	nsubj
28	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ships	acl:relcl
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 country	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 country	nmod:poss
31	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sailed	obl
32	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 years	nummod
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 ago	obl:unmarked
34	ago	ago	ADV	_	28 sailed	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	you			tree rules
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		year	for the rent	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find out	to-infinitive	you not said here			from Mark	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from he=Source
4	become	present · perfect				of my twelve ships	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	sail	past	my twelve ships			for Mark's country; ago property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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