The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 150

It is you, whom I called a fool, who have given me the dates: as for the others, I want none of them.’

Who acts: fool, you, I · What happens: be, call, give, want · To what, where: you, fool, dates, me, none · 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 (fool, you, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 you	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 you	cop
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 called	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 called	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 called	nsubj
7	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fool	det
9	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 given	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 given	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 given	aux
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 fool	advcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 given	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dates	det
16	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 given	obj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 others	case
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 others	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 others	det
21	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 called	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 want	nsubj
24	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 called	parataxis
25	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	24 want	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 none	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	fool	you			tree rules
2	call speech: assert	past	you	a fool		as the others	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient
3	give	present · perfect	a fool	the dates	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient date=Theme
4	want	present	I	none			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot none=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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