The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 57
And he fastened her with a chain to the wall, and put a great bowl in front of her and said, ‘I will not see you again till you have filled this bowl with your tears.’
Who acts: master, I, you · What happens: fasten, put, say, not see, fill · To what, where: wolf, great bowl, front, you, bowl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, I, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fastened | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fastened | nsubj |
| 3 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fastened | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 chain | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chain | det |
| 7 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fastened | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 wall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wall | det |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fastened | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fastened | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bowl | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bowl | amod |
| 16 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 front | case |
| 18 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 front | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fastened | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 see | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 see | advmod |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 see | obj |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 see | advmod |
| 31 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 34 filled | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 filled | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 filled | aux |
| 34 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 see | ccomp |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 bowl | det |
| 36 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 filled | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 tears | case |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 tears | nmod:poss |
| 39 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 bowl | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fastened | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past | master | wolf | with a chain; to the wall | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with chain=Instrument to wall=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | master not said here | a great bowl | front of wolf | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme in front=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | master not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not see | future | I | you | again | tree rules | |||
| 5 | fill | present · perfect | you | this bowl | with your tears | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient with tear=Instrument |
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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