The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 181

His mother entreated him not to leave her, but he would not listen, and he took his sword and a spear and some rice cakes, and went after the cat, which by this time had run of to a great distance.

Who acts: mother, cat · What happens: entreat, not leave, not listen, take, go, run · To what, where: cat, mother, sword

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 (mother, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entreated	nsubj
3	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 entreated	obj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 leave	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 leave	mark
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 entreated	ccomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 leave	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 listen	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 listen	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 listen	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 listen	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 listen	advmod
14	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 leave	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 took	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 entreated	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sword	nmod:poss
20	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 spear	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 spear	det
23	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sword	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cakes	cc
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 cakes	det
26	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cakes	compound
27	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sword	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
31	after	after	ADP	_	33 cat	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cat	det
33	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 run	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 run	obj
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 time	case
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 time	det
38	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 run	obl
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 run	aux
40	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 cat	acl:relcl
41	of	of	ADP	_	45 distance	case
42	to	to	ADP	_	45 distance	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 distance	det
44	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 distance	amod
45	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 run	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 entreated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	entreat	past	cat's mother	cat			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not leave	to-infinitive	cat's mother not said here	mother			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	not listen	would	cat				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	take	past	cat	cat's sword and a spear and some rice cakes			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
5	go	past	cat not said here		after the cat		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	run	past · perfect		the cat	time	of a great distance	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent which=Theme of distance=Trajectory

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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