The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 148
And it will not come again, neither for its life, nor for your life, nor for the lives of your children.’
Who acts: fool · What happens: not come
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 come | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 life | punct |
| 8 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 life | cc:preconj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 life | punct |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 life | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lives | punct |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 lives | cc |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 lives | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lives | det |
| 21 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 life | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 children | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 children | nmod:poss |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lives | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | future | fool | again | for fool's life | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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