The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 178

And the soldiers answered him, ‘Did we not tell you, master, what the cat was doing, and did you not say, “My cat and my people”?’

Who acts: soldiers, we, cat, you · What happens: answer, not tell, do, not say · To what, where: cat, master, you · 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 (soldiers, we, cat, you), 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 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldiers	det
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 answered	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 tell	advmod
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 master	punct
14	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 doing	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 doing	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cat	det
18	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 doing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 doing	aux
20	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 master	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 did	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 did	cc
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 say	nsubj
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 say	advmod
26	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 did	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cat	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 cat	punct
29	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 cat	nmod:poss
30	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 say	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 people	cc
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 people	nmod:poss
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 cat	conj
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 cat	punct
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the soldiers		cat	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	we	master	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient master=Topic
3	do	past · progressive	the cat	master		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	do	past	the soldiers not said here			tree rules
5	not say speech: assert	present	you	My cat and my people		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic

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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