The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 127
‘Ah, it is not a son that the master has, but a lion!
Who acts: business, master · What happens: not be, have · To what, where: son
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 (business, master), 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 | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 son | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 son | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 son | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 son | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 has | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 master | det |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 son | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lion | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 lion | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lion | det |
| 16 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | business | a son but a lion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the master | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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