The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 142
And he plucked a date, and put it into his father’s mouth.
Who acts: news · What happens: pluck, put · To what, where: date, mouth
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 (news), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 plucked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 plucked | nsubj |
| 3 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 date | det |
| 5 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plucked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 put | cc |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 plucked | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 mouth | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 father | case |
| 14 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | past | news | a date | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Patient | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | news not said here | mouth | news's father's mouth | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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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