The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 22

‘Well, I’ll just get in and show you,’ said the spirit, and after turning and twisting, and curling himself up, then he lay neatly packed into the hole.

Who acts: I, spirit · What happens: get in, show, say, turn, twist, curl up · To what, where: you, spirit, hole · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, spirit), 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	_	7 get	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 get	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
5	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 show	cc
10	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 get	xcomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 show	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 spirit	det
16	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turning	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 turning	cc
19	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 turning	mark
20	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 twisting	cc
22	twisting	twist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 turning	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 curling	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 curling	cc
25	curling	curl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 turning	conj
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 curling	obj
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 curling	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lay	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 lay	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lay	nsubj
31	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
32	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	31 lay	advmod
33	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 lay	xcomp
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 hole	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hole	det
36	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 packed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in	future	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	show	infinitive	I not said here		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past		the spirit					tree rules
4	turn	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	twist	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	curl up	gerund		spirit					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
7	lie	past	spirit				then	neatly property	tree rules
8	pack	participle	spirit not said here			the hole			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into hole=Destination

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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