The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 164
So if any one passed, going for water, it devoured him.
Who acts: one, water · What happens: pass, go, devour · To what, where: cat
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 (one, water), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 devoured | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 passed | mark |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 devoured | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 passed | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 devoured | nsubj |
| 12 | devoured | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 devoured | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 devoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass a condition, not said to happen | participle | any one | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | any one not said here | for water | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for water=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | devour | past | water | cat | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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