The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 42
‘Ah, my father will have a feast, indeed,’ thought he.
Who acts: father · What happens: have, think · To what, where: feast, father · 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 (father), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 feast | det |
| 9 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 11 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 have | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | my father | a feast | indeed property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | father | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=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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