The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 90
‘I am going to the Serpent King to receive twelve years’ rent from him.’
Who acts: I, twelve years · What happens: go, receive, rent · To what, where: rent
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, twelve years), 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 | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 7 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | compound |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 receive | mark |
| 10 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 11 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rent | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 12 years | case |
| 14 | rent | rent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 receive | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 receive | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | to the Serpent King | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | I not said here | twelve years's rent | from King | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rent=Theme from he=Source | |||
| 3 | rent | twelve years | nom rent «possession transitive»: poss=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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