The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 180

Now the youngest son had not gone with the rest, but had stayed at home with his mother; and when he heard that his brothers had been killed by the cat he said, ‘Let me go, that it may slay me also.’

Who acts: youngest son, cat, me, rest · What happens: not go, stay, hear, kill, say, let · To what, where: home, brothers, cat, me · 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 (youngest son, cat, me, rest), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 gone	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 son	amod
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 gone	advmod
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 rest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rest	det
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stayed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 stayed	cc
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stayed	aux
14	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 gone	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 home	case
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stayed	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 mother	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 home	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 heard	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 heard	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 heard	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 heard	nsubj
24	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 killed	mark
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 brothers	nmod:poss
27	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 killed	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 killed	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 killed	aux:pass
30	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 heard	ccomp
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 cat	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cat	det
33	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 killed	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 cat	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Let	punct
37	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 Let	punct
38	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 heard	ccomp
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 Let	obj
40	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 Let	xcomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 slay	punct
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 slay	mark
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 slay	nsubj
44	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 slay	aux
45	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 Let	conj
46	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 slay	obj
47	also	also	ADV	_	45 slay	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	the youngest son			now	with the rest	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with rest=Beneficiary
2	stay	past · perfect	the youngest son not said here		home with cat's mother			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
3	hear	past	cat					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	kill	past · perfect · passive	the cat	cat's brothers				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	cat	the cat not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
6	let	infinitive		me				tree rules
7	go	infinitive	me not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	slay	may	rest	me				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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