The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 213
And they answered, ‘Good, master,’ and did as he bade them.
Who acts: legs, lad · What happens: answer, do, bade · To what, where: legs
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 (legs, lad), 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 | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Good | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Good | punct |
| 6 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 master | punct |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Good | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 master | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Good | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 did | cc |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 bade | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bade | nsubj |
| 15 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 did | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bade | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | legs = leg | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | past | legs = leg not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bade | past | lad | legs = leg | tree rules |
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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