The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 169
But he answered as before, ‘The cat is mine and the people are mine.’
Who acts: cat, people · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: mine
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 (cat, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 before | case |
| 5 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 answered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mine | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 mine | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mine | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mine | cop |
| 11 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mine | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 mine | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mine | cop |
| 16 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mine | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | cat | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the cat | mine | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the people | mine | tree rules |
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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