The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 22
But he will send me to gather them up and bring them to him, and there are none to bring!
Who acts: storm, none · What happens: send, gather up, bring, be · To what, where: me, dates, storm
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 (storm, none), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 send | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 send | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | aux |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 send | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 gather | mark |
| 7 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 send | xcomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gather | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 gather | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bring | cc |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gather | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 are | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 are | cc |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 are | expl |
| 18 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | parataxis |
| 19 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 18 are | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 bring | mark |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 none | acl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | future | storm | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gather up | to-infinitive | storm not said here | dates = date | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | storm not said here | dates = date | storm | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 4 | be | present | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring | to-infinitive | none not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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