The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 196
And the boy pushed on to where the slave stood, and the slave said:
Who acts: boy, slave · What happens: push on, stand, say · 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 (boy, slave), 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 | _ | 4 pushed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pushed | nsubj |
| 4 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 pushed | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 10 stood | mark |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 stood | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 slave | det |
| 9 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pushed | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 slave | det |
| 14 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push on | past | the boy | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | the slave | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the slave | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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