The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 11

The first thing the youth did was to summon his slaves, and bid them beat drums all night under the date tree, for he feared to fall asleep.

Who acts: youth, first thing, sultan · What happens: do, be, bid, beat, fear, fall · To what, where: first thing, slaves, drums, date tree

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 (youth, first thing, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 summon	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 summon	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 summon	mark
9	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 slaves	nmod:poss
11	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 summon	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bid	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bid	cc
14	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 summon	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bid	obj
16	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 bid	xcomp
17	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 beat	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 night	det
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beat	obl:unmarked
20	under	under	ADP	_	23 tree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tree	det
22	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tree	compound
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beat	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 feared	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 feared	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 feared	nsubj
27	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bid	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 fall	mark
29	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 feared	xcomp
30	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fall	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 summon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the youth	the first thing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	is	past	the first thing				summon property	tree rules
3	bid	infinitive	the first thing not said here	slaves = slave				tree rules
4	beat	infinitive	the first thing not said here	drums	the date tree	night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme
5	fear	past	sultan					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	fall	to-infinitive	sultan not said here				asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «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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