The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 97
‘Then think of me and say to the king: “For thirty years the ferryman has rowed to and fro.
Who acts: you · What happens: think, say, row, fro · To what, where: king, ferryman · 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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 think | advmod |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 say | cc |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 rowed | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 rowed | punct |
| 13 | For | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rowed | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ferryman | det |
| 17 | ferryman | ferryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rowed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 rowed | aux |
| 19 | rowed | row | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 think | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 rowed | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fro | cc |
| 22 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 rowed | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | then | of me | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | row in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the ferryman | year | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fro in a quote | infinitive | 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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