The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 9
What shall we name him, and what fortune shall we give him?’ said the second.
Who acts: we · What happens: name, fortune, give, say · To what, where: Ivan, second · 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 (we), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 name | obj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 name | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 name | nsubj |
| 4 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 name | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fortune | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fortune | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 fortune | nsubj |
| 9 | fortune | fortune | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 name | parataxis |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fortune | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 name | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 name | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 second | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | shall | we | Ivan | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | fortune | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | give | shall | we | Ivan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the second | tree rules |
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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