The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 36
So he waited many months, till the tree was covered with more dates than any tree had ever borne before.
Who acts: sultan · What happens: wait, cover, bear · To what, where: tree
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 waited | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 months | amod |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 covered | punct |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 covered | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 covered | aux:pass |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 waited | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 dates | case |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 dates | amod |
| 14 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 covered | obl |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 borne | mark |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 borne | aux |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 borne | advmod |
| 20 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 covered | advcl |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 borne | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | sultan | month | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | the tree | with more dates | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with date=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear | past · perfect · passive | any tree | ever | before property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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