The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 224
(Adapted from Swahili Tales.)
What happens: adapt · To what, where: Swahili Tales
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: 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 Adapted | punct |
| 2 | Adapted | adapt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Tales | case |
| 4 | Swahili | Swahili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tales | compound |
| 5 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Adapted | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Adapted | punct |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 Adapted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adapt | participle | Swahili Tales | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: 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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