The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 10
And the eldest son answered, ‘I will go, father,’ and he went.
Who acts: eldest son, I, sultan · What happens: answer, go · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest son, I, sultan), 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 | _ | 5 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 3 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 son | amod |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 father | punct |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | vocative |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 father | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the eldest son | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | future | I | father vocative | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | sultan | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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