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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 answered | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 answered | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 hateful | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 hateful | punct |
| 9 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 brothers | nummod |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hateful | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hateful | cop |
| 13 | hateful | hateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answered | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 father | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hateful | obl |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hateful | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stole | cc |
| 21 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 came | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dates | det |
| 23 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stole | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 see | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 see | cc |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 day | case |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 to | punct |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 see | obl |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 see | nsubj |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 see | aux |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | conj |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 see | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 see | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 see | cc |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 37 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 see | nsubj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 see | aux |
| 39 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 see | conj |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 see | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 see | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 see | cc |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 people | det:predet |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 people | det |
| 45 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 see | nsubj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 town | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 town | det |
| 48 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 people | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 great | punct |
| 50 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 town | amod |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 small | cc |
| 52 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 great | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 people | punct |
| 54 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 see | aux |
| 55 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | conj |
| 56 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 55 see | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the boy | father | again | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | present | My six brothers | to my father; hateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | steal | past | you not said here | the dates | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location date=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | shall | my father | you | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | see | shall | my brothers | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | see | shall | all people of the town | you | vn 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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