The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 38

And the lad answered: ‘My father, I am going now, and to-morrow, when the sun has passed the hour of seven, bid a slave come and gather the dates.’

Who acts: lad, father, sun · What happens: answer, go, pass, bid, come, gather · To what, where: slave, dates · 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 (lad, father, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lad	det
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
7	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 going	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 father	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 going	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 answered	ccomp
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 going	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bid	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bid	cc
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 morrow	case
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 to	punct
18	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bid	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 passed	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 passed	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sun	det
22	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 passed	nsubj
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 passed	aux
24	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 morrow	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hour	det
26	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 passed	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 seven	case
28	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 hour	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 morrow	punct
30	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 slave	det
32	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bid	obj
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 bid	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 gather	cc
35	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 come	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dates	det
37	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 gather	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the lad				tree rules
2	go	present · progressive	My father		now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pass	present · perfect	the sun		hour		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bid	infinitive	My father not said here	a slave		to morrow	tree rules
5	come	infinitive	My father not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	gather	infinitive	My father not said here	the dates			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Theme

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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