The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 208

It was now afternoon, and the lad said: ‘It is time we went after the Nunda.’

Who acts: rest, lad, we · What happens: be, say, go · To what, where: afternoon, time · 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 (rest, lad, we), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 afternoon	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afternoon	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 afternoon	advmod
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lad	det
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afternoon	parataxis
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
12	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 time	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 time	cop
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl:unmarked
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
17	after	after	ADP	_	19 Nunda	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Nunda	det
19	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afternoon	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 afternoon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	rest	afternoon	now	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the lad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	present	rest	time		tree rules
4	go	past	we		after the Nunda	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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