The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 21

Shall I tell him that the dates have been stolen, or that a great rain fell and a great storm blew?

Who acts: I, great rain, great storm · What happens: tell, steal, fall, blow · To what, where: lad, dates · 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 (I, great rain, great storm), 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	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 stolen	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dates	det
7	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stolen	nsubj:pass
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 stolen	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 stolen	aux:pass
10	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tell	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fell	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 fell	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 fell	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 rain	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rain	amod
16	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	nsubj
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 blew	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 storm	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 storm	amod
21	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blew	nsubj
22	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fell	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	shall	I		lad	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	steal	present · perfect · passive		the dates		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	fall	past	a great rain			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	blow	past	a great storm			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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