The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 25
It is the truth that will be best, and that will I tell him.’
Who acts: rain, truth, that · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: truth, storm · 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 (rain, truth, that), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 truth | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 truth | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 best | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 best | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 best | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 best | cop |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tell | cc |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 best | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | rain | the truth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | future | the truth | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | future | that | storm | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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