The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 33
And the sultan replied, ‘A son like you is only good for eating and sleeping.
Who acts: sultan · What happens: reply, be, eat, sleep · To what, where: sultan
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 good | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sultan | det |
| 3 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 good | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sultan | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 7 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sultan | conj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 good | cop |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 good | advmod |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 eating | mark |
| 15 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 good | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sleeping | cc |
| 17 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 eating | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | the sultan and a son like you not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the sultan and a son like you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | the sultan and a son like you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sleep | gerund | the sultan and a son like you not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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