The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 170
And no man dared kill the cat, which grew bolder and bolder, and at last came into the town to look for its prey.
Who acts: man, cat · What happens: dare, kill, grow, come, look · To what, where: cat, last
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 (man, cat), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 dared | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dared | nsubj |
| 4 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dared | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cat | det |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kill | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cat | acl:relcl |
| 11 | bolder | bold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bolder | cc |
| 13 | bolder | bold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 bolder | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 came | obl |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dared | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 town | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 town | det |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 look | mark |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 came | advcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 prey | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 prey | nmod:poss |
| 26 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 look | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | past | no man | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | no man not said here | the cat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | the cat | bold property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | no man not said here | last | into the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | no man not said here | for town's prey | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for prey=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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