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The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 221

And they took it up and carried it back to the town, singing as they went, ‘He has killed the Nunda, the eater of people.’

Who acts: legs · What happens: take up, carry back, sing, go, kill · To what, where: place, town, Nunda · 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 (legs), 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

ccnsubjobjcompound:prtccconjobjadvmodcasedetoblpunctadvclmarknsubjccomppunctpunctnsubj:passauxconjdetobjpunctdetapposcasenmodpunctpunctrootAndCCONJtheyPRONtookVERBitPRONupADPandCCONJcarriedVERBitPRONbackADVtoADPtheDETtownNOUN,PUNCTsingingVERBasSCONJtheyPRONwentVERB,PUNCT‘PUNCTHePRONhasAUXkilledVERBtheDETNundaPROPN,PUNCTtheDETeaterNOUNofADPpeopleNOUN.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_3 tookcc
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 tooknsubj
3tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 tookobj
5upupADP_3 tookcompound:prt
6andandCCONJ_7 carriedcc
7carriedcarryVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 tookconj
8ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 carriedobj
9backbackADV_7 carriedadvmod
10totoADP_12 towncase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 towndet
12towntownNOUNNumber=Sing7 carriedobl
13,,PUNCT_14 singingpunct
14singingsingVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 tookadvcl
15asasSCONJ_17 wentmark
16theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs17 wentnsubj
17wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 singingccomp
18,,PUNCT_22 killedpunct
19‘'PUNCT_22 killedpunct
20HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 killednsubj:pass
21hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 killedaux
22killedkillVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 tookconj
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 Nundadet
24NundaNundaPROPNNumber=Sing22 killedobj
25,,PUNCT_27 eaterpunct
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 eaterdet
27eatereaterNOUNNumber=Sing24 Nundaappos
28ofofADP_29 peoplecase
29peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur27 eaternmod
30..PUNCT_3 tookpunct
31’'PUNCT_3 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1take uppastlegs = legplacevn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2carry backpastlegs = leg not said hereplacethe townvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to town=Destination
3sing speech: expressgerundlegs = leg not said herevn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4gopastlegs = legvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5killpresent · perfect · passiveNundavn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer nunda=Result

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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