The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 190
And something in the boy’s soul whispered that here was the end of all their seeking, and to-day they would find the Nunda.
Who acts: something, footprints · What happens: whisper, be, find, seek · To what, where: end, 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 (something, footprints), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 whispered | cc |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 whispered | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 soul | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soul | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 boy | case |
| 7 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 something | nmod |
| 8 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 here | mark |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 end | advcl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 end | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whispered | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 seeking | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 seeking | det:predet |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 seeking | nmod:poss |
| 17 | seeking | seeking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 end | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 find | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 find | cc |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 to | punct |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 find | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | aux |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 whispered | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Nunda | det |
| 27 | Nunda | Nunda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | something | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the end | of footprints's seeking | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | would | footprints = footprint | the Nunda | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nunda=Topic | |||
| 4 | seek | footprints = footprint | nom seeking «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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