The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 132
‘Oh yes, it is true, but let him sleep till each man has brought forth a present.
Who acts: heart, youth · What happens: be, let, sleep, bring · To what, where: youth, man
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 (heart, youth), 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 true | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 true | discourse |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 true | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 true | cop |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 true | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 brought | mark |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | aux |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sleep | advcl |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 brought | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 present | det |
| 20 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | heart | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | youth | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sleep | infinitive | youth not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bring | present · perfect · passive | each man | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination present=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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