The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 205
‘We will feast to-day,’ he said; ‘make cakes of batter, and bring water,’ and they ate and drank.
Who acts: We, cat, cakes · What happens: feast, say, make, bring, eat, drink · To what, where: cakes, water · 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, cat, cakes), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 feast | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 feast | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feast | aux |
| 4 | feast | feast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 to | punct |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feast | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feast | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 feast | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 batter | case |
| 17 | batter | batter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cakes | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bring | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bring | cc |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 make | conj |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bring | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ate | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ate | nsubj |
| 26 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 drank | cc |
| 28 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 ate | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feast | future | We | day | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | cakes of batter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product | |||||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | water | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||||
| 5 | eat | past | cakes = cake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | drink | past | cakes = cake not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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