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The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 104

But again the boy answered him: ‘My six brothers are hateful to my father because you came and stole the dates, and to-day my father shall see you, and my brothers shall see you, and all the people of the town, great and small, shall see you.

Who acts: boy, six brothers, you, father, brothers, people · What happens: answer, be, come, steal, see · To what, where: father, dates, you

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 (boy, six brothers, you, father), 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

ccadvmoddetnsubjobjpunctpunctnmod:possnummodnsubjcopconjcasenmod:possoblmarknsubjadvclccconjdetobjpunctcccasepunctoblnmod:possnsubjauxconjobjpunctccnmod:possnsubjauxconjobjpunctccdet:predetdetnsubjcasedetnmodpunctamodccconjpunctauxconjobjpunctrootButCCONJagainADVtheDETboyNOUNansweredVERBhimPRON:PUNCT‘PUNCTMyPRONsixNUMbrothersNOUNareAUXhatefulADJtoADPmyPRONfatherNOUNbecauseSCONJyouPRONcameVERBandCCONJstoleVERBtheDETdatesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtoADP-PUNCTdayNOUNmyPRONfatherNOUNshallAUXseeVERByouPRON,PUNCTandCCONJmyPRONbrothersNOUNshallAUXseeVERByouPRON,PUNCTandCCONJallDETtheDETpeopleNOUNofADPtheDETtownNOUN,PUNCTgreatADJandCCONJsmallADJ,PUNCTshallAUXseeVERByouPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_5 answeredcc
2againagainADV_5 answeredadvmod
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 boydet
4boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing5 answerednsubj
5answeredanswerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 answeredobj
7::PUNCT_13 hatefulpunct
8‘'PUNCT_13 hatefulpunct
9MymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 brothersnmod:poss
10sixsixNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card11 brothersnummod
11brothersbrotherNOUNNumber=Plur13 hatefulnsubj
12arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 hatefulcop
13hatefulhatefulADJDegree=Pos5 answeredconj
14totoADP_16 fathercase
15mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 fathernmod:poss
16fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing13 hatefulobl
17becausebecauseSCONJ_19 camemark
18youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs19 camensubj
19camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 hatefuladvcl
20andandCCONJ_21 stolecc
21stolestealVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 cameconj
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 datesdet
23datesdateNOUNNumber=Plur21 stoleobj
24,,PUNCT_32 seepunct
25andandCCONJ_32 seecc
26totoADP_28 daycase
27--PUNCT_26 topunct
28daydayNOUNNumber=Sing32 seeobl
29mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 fathernmod:poss
30fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing32 seensubj
31shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin32 seeaux
32seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf5 answeredconj
33youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs32 seeobj
34,,PUNCT_39 seepunct
35andandCCONJ_39 seecc
36mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 brothersnmod:poss
37brothersbrotherNOUNNumber=Plur39 seensubj
38shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin39 seeaux
39seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf32 seeconj
40youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs39 seeobj
41,,PUNCT_55 seepunct
42andandCCONJ_55 seecc
43allallDETPronType=Tot45 peopledet:predet
44thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art45 peopledet
45peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur55 seensubj
46ofofADP_48 towncase
47thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art48 towndet
48towntownNOUNNumber=Sing45 peoplenmod
49,,PUNCT_50 greatpunct
50greatgreatADJDegree=Pos48 townamod
51andandCCONJ_52 smallcc
52smallsmallADJDegree=Pos50 greatconj
53,,PUNCT_45 peoplepunct
54shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin55 seeaux
55seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf5 answeredconj
56youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs55 seeobj
57..PUNCT_5 answeredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1answer speech: assertpastthe boyfatheragainvn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2ispresentMy six brothersto my father; hateful propertytree rules
3comepastyouvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4stealpastyou not said herethe datesvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location date=Theme
5seeshallmy fatheryoudayvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
6seeshallmy brothersyouvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
7seeshallall people of the townyouvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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