The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 153

And the owner of the calf went and told the sultan, but he answered, ‘The cat is mine, and the calf mine,’ and the man dared not complain further.

Who acts: owner, sultan, cat, man · What happens: go, tell, answer, be, not dare, not complain · To what, where: sultan, mine · 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 (owner, sultan, cat, man), 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	_	7 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 owner	det
3	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 calf	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 calf	det
6	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owner	nmod
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sultan	det
11	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 answered	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 answered	nsubj
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mine	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 mine	punct
18	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cat	det
19	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mine	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 mine	cop
21	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 answered	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 mine	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 mine	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mine	det
25	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mine	compound
26	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mine	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 mine	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dared	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dared	nsubj
32	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 dared	advmod
34	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 dared	xcomp
35	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 complain	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the owner of the calf				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the owner of the calf not said here		the sultan		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient
3	answer speech: assert	past	sultan				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	the cat	mine			tree rules
5	not dare	past	the man				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not complain speech: other	infinitive	the man not said here			far property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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