The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 24
And he will answer, “You had slaves, did they not fight with the Bedouins?”
Who acts: storm, You, dates · What happens: answer, have, not fight · To what, where: slaves · 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 (storm, You, dates), 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 answer | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 answer | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | aux |
| 4 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | parataxis |
| 9 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fight | punct |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fight | aux |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fight | nsubj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 fight | advmod |
| 14 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Bedouins | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Bedouins | det |
| 17 | Bedouins | Bedouin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 fight | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 answer | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | future | storm | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | You | slaves | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not fight in a quote | past · do-support | dates = date | with the Bedouins | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with bedouin=Co-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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