The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 182

The lad spent many days hunting the cat, which now bore the name of ‘The Nunda, eater of people,’ but though he killed many wild animals he saw no trace of the enemy he was hunting for.

Who acts: lad, cat · What happens: spend, hunt, bear, kill, see, name · To what, where: cat, name, many wild animals, trace, enemy, Nunda eater

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 (lad, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	nsubj
3	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spent	obj
6	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spent	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunting	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bore	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 bore	nsubj
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 bore	advmod
12	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cat	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 name	det
14	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bore	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	20 eater	case
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 eater	punct
17	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Nunda	det
18	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 eater	compound
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eater	punct
20	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 name	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 people	case
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eater	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bore	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 hunting	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 killed	cc
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 killed	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 killed	nsubj
28	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spent	conj
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 animals	amod
30	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 animals	amod
31	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 killed	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 saw	nsubj
33	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 animals	acl:relcl
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 trace	det
35	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 saw	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 enemy	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 enemy	det
38	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 trace	nmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 hunting	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 hunting	aux
41	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 enemy	acl:relcl
42	for	for	ADP	_	41 hunting	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	spend	past	the lad		day	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hunt	gerund	the lad not said here	the cat		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
3	bear	past	the cat	the name of Nunda eater of people	now	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
4	kill	past	cat	many wild animals		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
5	see	past	cat	no trace of the enemy		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trace=Stimulus
6	hunt	past · progressive	cat	the enemy not said here		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme
7	name			Nunda eater of people		nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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