The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 2

He went to see them three times every day: first at seven o’clock, when he got up, then at three, and lastly at half-past five.

Who acts: sultan · What happens: go, see, get up · To what, where: seven o’clock, parts, three

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 (sultan), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obl:unmarked
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 times	nmod:unmarked
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 o’clock	punct
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 o’clock	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 o’clock	case
13	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 o’clock	nummod
14	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 got	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 o’clock	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 got	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 three	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 three	advmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 three	case
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 got	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lastly	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lastly	cc
26	lastly	lastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 got	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	31 five	case
28	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	30 past	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 half	punct
30	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 five	amod
31	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 lastly	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	sultan		seven o’clock		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	to-infinitive	sultan not said here	parts = part		time	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	get up	past	sultan	three			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer three=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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