The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 31
When I woke a slave was standing over me, and he said, “There is not one date left on the tree!”
Who acts: I, slave, lad, one date · What happens: wake, stand, say, be, leave · To what, where: one date, tree · 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 (I, slave, lad, one date), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 woke | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 slave | det |
| 5 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 standing | aux |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 woke | ccomp |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 standing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 16 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 date | advmod |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 date | nummod |
| 20 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 is | nsubj |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 date | acl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 date | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | a slave | over me | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over i=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | lad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | one date | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave in a quote | participle | one date not said here | the tree | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location |
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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