The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 185
If I am to die, then I die, but every day I must go and seek for the Nunda.’
Who acts: I · What happens: die, go, seek
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 (I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 am | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 am | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 die | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 die | mark |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 am | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 die | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 die | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 die | nsubj |
| 9 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 die | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seek | cc |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Nunda | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Nunda | det |
| 21 | Nunda | Nunda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 seek | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 die | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | die | present | I | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | go | must | I | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seek | infinitive | I not said here | for the Nunda | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for nunda=Theme |
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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