The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 3

There was no plant and no vegetable which escaped his eye, but he lingered longest of all before his one date tree.

Who acts: plant, vegetable, sultan · What happens: be, escape, linger · To what, where: eye, longest

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 (plant, vegetable, sultan), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 plant	det
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 vegetable	cc
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 vegetable	det
7	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plant	conj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 escaped	nsubj
9	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 vegetable	acl:relcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eye	nmod:poss
11	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 escaped	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lingered	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 lingered	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lingered	nsubj
15	lingered	linger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
16	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 lingered	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 longest	nmod
19	before	before	ADP	_	23 tree	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 tree	nmod:poss
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 date	nummod
22	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tree	compound
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lingered	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	no plant and no vegetable		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	escape	past	no vegetable	sultan's eye			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Initial_Location
3	linger	past	sultan	longest of all		before sultan's date tree	tree rules

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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