The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 168

Then the people went to the sultan in a body, and told him of all the misdeeds of that cat.

Who acts: people · What happens: go, tell · To what, where: body · 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 (people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 sultan	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sultan	det
7	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 body	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 body	det
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 misdeeds	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 misdeeds	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 misdeeds	det
18	misdeeds	misdeed	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 told	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 cat	case
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 cat	det
21	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 misdeeds	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the people			a body	then	to the sultan	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sultan=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	the people not said here		body			of all misdeeds of that cat	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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