The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 158
Let it eat the camel: let it even eat a man.’
Who acts: you, owner · What happens: let, eat · To what, where: owner, camel, man
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, owner), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 camel | det |
| 5 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 eat | advmod |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eat | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | owner | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | infinitive | owner not said here | the camel | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Patient | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | you not said here | owner | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | present | you not said here | a man | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
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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