The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 37

When they were near ripening he sent one of his sons to the garden: saying, ‘My son, I am longing to taste those dates: go and watch over them, for to-day’s sun will bring them to perfection.’

Who acts: trees, I, sun · What happens: be, say, long, taste, go, watch · To what, where: ripening, dates, trees, perfection · 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 (trees, I, sun), 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	SCONJ	_	7 sent	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sent	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sent	cop
4	near	near	ADP	_	5 ripening	case
5	ripening	ripening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sent	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sent	nsubj
7	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sent	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sons	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sons	nmod:poss
11	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 garden	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 garden	det
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sons	nmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 saying	punct
16	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sent	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 son	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 son	punct
19	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 son	nmod:poss
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saying	vocative
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 longing	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 longing	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 longing	aux
24	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 saying	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 taste	mark
26	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 longing	xcomp
27	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 dates	det
28	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 taste	obj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
30	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 saying	ccomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 watch	cc
32	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 go	conj
33	over	over	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 watch	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 bring	punct
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 bring	mark
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 day	case
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 to	punct
39	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bring	obl:unmarked
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 day	case
41	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bring	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 bring	aux
43	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 go	conj
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 bring	obj
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 perfection	case
46	perfection	perfection	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bring	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	trees = tree		ripening		send property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	trees = tree not said here				My son vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	long	present · progressive	I					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	taste not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	that dates				vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme date=Attribute
5	go	infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	watch	infinitive					over trees = tree	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Location
7	bring	future	sun	trees = tree	perfection	day		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to perfection=Destination

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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