The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 87
Vassili looked about him, and, seeing no one, called out: ‘Who spoke to me?’
Who acts: Vassili · What happens: look, see, call out, speak · To what, where: one, 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 (Vassili), 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 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seeing | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seeing | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seeing | punct |
| 8 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 looked | advcl |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seeing | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 called | compound:prt |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoke | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoke | punct |
| 16 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 spoke | nsubj |
| 17 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 spoke | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoke | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Vassili | about Mark | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | Vassili not said here | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | participle | Vassili not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | me | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-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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