The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 203

She told me it had spots like a civet-cat, and this has spots like a civet-cat.’

Who acts: mother, spear, this · What happens: tell, have · To what, where: me, spots · 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 (mother, spear, this), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
6	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 cat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cat	det
9	civet	civet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cat	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 civet	punct
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spots	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 has	cc
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
16	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 has	obj
17	like	like	ADP	_	21 cat	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cat	det
19	civet	civet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cat	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 civet	punct
21	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spots	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	mother		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	past	spear	spots		like a civet cat	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient
3	have	present	this	spots		like a civet cat	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient

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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