The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 156

Next it was a horse, and after that a camel, and when the sultan was told he said, ‘You don’t like this cat, and want me to kill it.

Who acts: owner, sultan, You, me · What happens: be, tell, say, not do, want, kill · To what, where: sultan, me, owner · 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, You, me), 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	Next	next	ADP	_	5 horse	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 horse	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 horse	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 camel	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 camel	cc
8	after	after	ADP	_	11 camel	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 camel	det
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 camel	det
11	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 told	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sultan	det
16	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 told	aux:pass
18	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 said	advcl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 horse	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
22	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	24 do	mark
23	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
24	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 do	advmod
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 cat	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 cat	det
28	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 do	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 want	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 want	cc
31	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 do	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 want	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 kill	mark
34	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 want	xcomp
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 kill	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 horse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	owner		next a horse and that camel	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the sultan		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	sultan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not do	present	You		like this cat	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	want	present	You not said here	me		tree rules
6	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here	owner		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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