The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 222
And when his father heard the news, and that his son was come, and was bringing the Nunda with him, he felt that the man did not dwell on the earth whose joy was greater than his.
Who acts: father, son, Nunda, man, joy · What happens: hear, be, bring, feel, not dwell · To what, where: news, Nunda, earth
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 (father, son, Nunda, man), 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 | _ | 25 felt | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 felt | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 news | det |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | cop |
| 14 | come | come | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bringing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bringing | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bringing | aux |
| 18 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 heard | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Nunda | det |
| 20 | Nunda | Nunda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bringing | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bringing | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 felt | nsubj |
| 25 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 dwell | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dwell | nsubj |
| 29 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 dwell | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 dwell | advmod |
| 31 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 felt | ccomp |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 earth | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 earth | det |
| 34 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dwell | obl |
| 35 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 36 joy | nmod:poss |
| 36 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 greater | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 greater | cop |
| 38 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 earth | acl:relcl |
| 39 | than | than | ADP | _ | 40 his | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 greater | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Nunda's father | the news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Nunda's son | come property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · progressive | Nunda's father not said here | the Nunda | with Nunda | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument nunda=Destination | |||
| 4 | feel | past | Nunda | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not dwell | past · do-support | the man | the earth | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location | ||||
| 6 | is | past | joy | great property | 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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