The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 102

‘I did not eat your dates,’ persisted the bird, ‘and the day is dawning.

Who acts: I · What happens: not eat, persist, dawn · To what, where: dates, bird

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 (I), 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	_	5 eat	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 persisted	ccomp
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dates	nmod:poss
7	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
10	persisted	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 persisted	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ‘	punct
14	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bird	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dawning	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dawning	obl:unmarked
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 dawning	aux
19	dawning	dawn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 persisted	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 persisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not eat	past · do-support	I	your dates		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Patient
2	persist	past		the bird and ‘		tree rules
3	dawn	present · progressive			day	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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