The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 128

This day Sit-in-the-kitchen has uncovered his face before his father!’

What happens: uncover · To what, where: Sit

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: 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 uncovered	obl:unmarked
3	Sit	Sit	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 uncovered	nsubj:pass
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 kitchen	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 kitchen	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 in	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kitchen	det
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 the	punct
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Sit	appos
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 uncovered	aux
11	uncovered	uncover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 face	nmod:poss
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 uncovered	obj
14	before	before	ADP	_	16 father	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 uncovered	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 uncovered	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 uncovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	uncover	present · perfect · passive		Sit			before Sit's father; day		tree rules

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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