The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 137

When his father heard the noise and saw the baskets made of green leaves, brimming over with dates, and his son borne high on the necks of slaves, his heart leaped, and he said to himself ‘To-day at last I shall eat dates.’

Who acts: father, son, I · What happens: hear, see, make, brim over, bear, leap · To what, where: noise, baskets, necks, heart, boy, dates · 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 (father, son, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 noise	det
6	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 baskets	det
10	baskets	basket	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	obj
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 baskets	acl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 leaves	case
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 leaves	amod
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 made	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brimming	punct
16	brimming	brim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 saw	advcl
17	over	over	ADV	_	16 brimming	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 dates	case
19	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 brimming	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 borne	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 borne	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 son	nmod:poss
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 borne	nsubj
24	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heard	conj
25	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 borne	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 necks	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 necks	det
28	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 borne	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 slaves	case
30	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 necks	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 heart	punct
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heart	nmod:poss
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 slaves	conj
34	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 heart	acl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 said	nsubj
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 himself	case
40	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 said	obl
41	‘	'	PUNCT	_	49 eat	punct
42	To	to	ADP	_	44 day	case
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 To	punct
44	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 eat	obl
45	at	at	ADP	_	46 last	case
46	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 day	nmod
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 eat	nsubj
48	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 eat	aux
49	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 said	ccomp
50	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 eat	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	49 eat	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	49 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	boy's father	the noise					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
2	see	past	boy's father not said here	the baskets					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer basket=Stimulus
3	make	participle		the baskets not said here				of green leaves	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	brim over	gerund	boy's father not said here					with dates; over property	tree rules
5	bear	participle	boy's son			the necks of slaves and boy's heart		high property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	leap	participle		boy's heart not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	father		boy				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
8	eat	shall	I	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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