The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 146
But, tell me, what did you do with the bird, for it was you, and you only who watched for it?’
Who acts: you, fool · What happens: tell, do, be, watch · To what, where: me · 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 (you, fool), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 tell | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 bird | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 you | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 you | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 you | cop |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 watched | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 watched | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 watched | nsubj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 watched | advmod |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 watched | nsubj |
| 23 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | advcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 watched | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | do | past · do-support | you | with the bird | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | fool | for you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | watch | past | you | for fool | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=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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