The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 223

And the people bowed down to the boy and gave him presents, and loved him, because he had delivered them from the bondage of fear, and had slain the Nunda.

Who acts: people, Nunda · What happens: bow down, give, love, deliver, slay · To what, where: presents, Nunda, people, bondage

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 (people, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 bowed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bowed	nsubj
4	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 bowed	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 boy	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bowed	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gave	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 loved	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 loved	cc
15	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bowed	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 loved	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 delivered	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 delivered	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 delivered	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 delivered	aux
21	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 loved	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 delivered	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 bondage	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bondage	det
25	bondage	bondage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 delivered	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 fear	case
27	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bondage	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 slain	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 slain	cc
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 slain	aux
31	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 bowed	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Nunda	det
33	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 slain	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bow down	past	the people				to the boy; down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to boy=Pivot
2	give	past	the people not said here	presents	Nunda			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient present=Theme
3	love	past		Nunda				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	deliver	past · perfect	Nunda	people		the bondage of fear		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from bondage=Initial_Location
5	slay	past · perfect	the people not said here	the Nunda				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nunda=Patient

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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