The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 28

And the youth answered, ‘The dates have all been eaten by some bird: there is not one left.’

Who acts: youth, bird, one · What happens: answer, eat, be, leave · To what, where: dates · 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 (youth, bird, one), 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 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eaten	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 eaten	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dates	det
8	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eaten	nsubj:pass
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 eaten	aux
10	all	all	ADV	_	12 eaten	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 eaten	aux:pass
12	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 answered	ccomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 bird	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 bird	det
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eaten	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 is	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 is	expl
18	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 bird	acl:relcl
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 one	advmod
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 left	nsubj
21	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 is	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the youth				tree rules
2	eat	present · perfect · passive	some bird	the dates		all property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	be	present	some bird not said here		there		tree rules
4	leave	participle	one				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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