The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 187
Many times his slaves came and told him, ‘We have seen footprints, and to-day we shall behold the Nunda.’
Who acts: We · What happens: come, tell, see, behold · To what, where: seen footprints, cat, Nunda · 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 (We), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 times | amod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 4 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 times | conj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 footprints | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 seen | punct |
| 11 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 footprints | amod |
| 14 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 behold | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 behold | cc |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 to | punct |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 behold | obl |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 behold | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 behold | aux |
| 22 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Nunda | det |
| 24 | Nunda | Nunda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 behold | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | seen footprints | cat | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | see | present · perfect | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | behold | shall | we | the Nunda | day | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nunda=Stimulus |
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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