The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 35
Go your way, and when my date tree bears again, I will send another son; perhaps he will watch better.’
Who acts: you, I, sultan · What happens: go, send, watch · To what, where: way, son
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 (you, I, 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 send | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 send | cc |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 again | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bears | nmod:poss |
| 8 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bears | compound |
| 10 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 again | nsubj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 send | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 again | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 send | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 send | aux |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 son | det |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 send | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 watch | punct |
| 19 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 22 watch | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 watch | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 watch | aux |
| 22 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 23 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 watch | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | your way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | future | I | another son | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | ||||
| 3 | watch | future | sultan | good, perhaps property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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