The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 12

So the slaves beat the drums, and the young man danced till four o’clock, and then it grew so cold he could dance no longer, and one of the slaves said to him: ‘It is getting light; the tree is safe; lie down, master, and go to sleep.’

Who acts: slaves, young man, thing, sultan, one, tree · What happens: beat, dance, grow, say, get, be · To what, where: drums, sultan, light, sleep · 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 (slaves, young man, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 beat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slaves	det
3	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beat	nsubj
4	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drums	det
6	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 danced	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 danced	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 danced	nsubj
12	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beat	conj
13	till	till	ADP	_	15 o’clock	case
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 o’clock	nummod
15	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 danced	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grew	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 grew	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grew	nsubj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beat	conj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 cold	advmod
22	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grew	xcomp
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dance	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 dance	aux
25	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 grew	ccomp
26	no	no	ADV	_	27 longer	advmod
27	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 dance	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 said	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 slaves	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 slaves	det
33	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 one	nmod
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 grew	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 said	obl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 getting	punct
38	‘	'	PUNCT	_	41 getting	punct
39	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 getting	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 getting	aux
41	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 said	advcl
42	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 getting	obj
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 safe	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 tree	det
45	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 safe	nsubj
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 safe	cop
47	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beat	parataxis
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 lie	punct
49	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	47 safe	parataxis
50	down	down	ADP	_	49 lie	compound:prt
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 master	punct
52	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lie	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 go	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 go	cc
55	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	49 lie	conj
56	to	to	ADP	_	57 sleep	case
57	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 go	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 safe	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	47 safe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	the slaves	the drums					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme
2	dance	past	the young man				till four o’clock		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	thing				then	cold property	tree rules
4	dance	could	sultan					long property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	one of the slaves		sultan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6	get	present · progressive	thing	light					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
7	is	present	the tree					safe property	tree rules
8	lie down	infinitive							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	go	infinitive				sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location

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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