The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 18
‘Your father set you to watch the tree, and you have not watched, and the dates have all been eaten by a bird.’
Who acts: father, you, bird · What happens: set, watch, not watch, eat · To what, where: you, tree, dates
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 (father, you, bird), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 set | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 watch | mark |
| 7 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watch | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 watched | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 watched | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 watched | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 watched | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 watched | advmod |
| 15 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 set | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eaten | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eaten | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dates | det |
| 19 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 eaten | aux |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 eaten | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 eaten | aux:pass |
| 23 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 watched | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 bird | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bird | det |
| 26 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eaten | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Your father | you | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result | ||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | Your father not said here | the tree | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not watch | present · perfect | you | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | eat | present · perfect · passive | a bird | the dates | all property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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