The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 130

‘To day the people may eat the dates.’

Who acts: people · What happens: eat · To what, where: dates

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 (people), 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	_	7 eat	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	3 day	case
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dates	det
9	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	may	the people	the dates			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Patient

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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