The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 41
And about midnight he arose to look at the tree, and the dates were all there--beautiful dates, swinging in bunches.
Who acts: youth, dates · What happens: arise, look, be, swing
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 (youth, dates), 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 | _ | 5 arose | cc |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 midnight | advmod |
| 3 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arose | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arose | nsubj |
| 5 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 arose | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 there | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 there | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dates | det |
| 14 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 there | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 there | cop |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 there | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 arose | parataxis |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 dates | punct |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dates | amod |
| 20 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 there | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 swinging | punct |
| 22 | swinging | swing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 there | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 bunches | case |
| 24 | bunches | bunch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 swinging | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | youth | midnight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | youth not said here | at the tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the dates | beautiful dates obl; all, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | swing | gerund | the dates not said here | in bunches | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bunch=Attribute |
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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