The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 206

And when they had finished he bade them hide the rest of the food in the thicket, that if they slew the Nunda they might return and eat and sleep before going back to the town.

Who acts: cakes, cat · What happens: finish, bade, hide, slay, return, eat · To what, where: rest, thicket, Nunda

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 (cakes, cat), 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	_	9 hide	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 finished	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 finished	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	aux
5	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 hide	advcl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bade	nsubj
7	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finished	obj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hide	nsubj
9	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rest	det
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hide	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 food	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 food	det
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rest	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 thicket	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thicket	det
17	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hide	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 return	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 return	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 slew	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 slew	nsubj
22	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 return	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Nunda	det
24	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 slew	obj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 return	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 return	aux
27	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hide	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 eat	cc
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 return	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sleep	cc
31	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 return	conj
32	before	before	SCONJ	_	33 going	mark
33	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 sleep	advcl
34	back	back	ADV	_	33 going	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 town	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 town	det
37	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 going	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	cakes = cake				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	bade		cat				tree rules
3	hide	present	cakes = cake	the rest of the food	the thicket		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rest=Patient in thicket=Location
4	slay a condition, not said to happen	past	cakes = cake	the Nunda			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nunda=Patient
5	return	might	cakes = cake				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	eat	infinitive	cakes = cake not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sleep	infinitive	cakes = cake not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	go back	gerund	cakes = cake not said here			to the town result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result

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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