The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 214

Then they crawled on their hands and knees to where the Nunda lay asleep.

Who acts: legs, Nunda · What happens: crawl, lie · To what, where: hands

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, Nunda), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 crawled	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crawled	nsubj
3	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crawled	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 knees	cc
8	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hands	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 where	case
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 lay	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Nunda	det
12	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crawled	advcl
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lay	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crawled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	past	legs = leg			legs's hands and knees	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory
2	lie	past	the Nunda					asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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