The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 48

‘Oh my father will have his dates; they are all safe now,’ he thought to himself.

Who acts: father, dates · What happens: have, be, think · To what, where: dates, 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, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 have	discourse
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thought	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dates	nmod:poss
8	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 safe	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 safe	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 safe	cop
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 safe	advmod
13	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 have	parataxis
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 safe	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 thought	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	future	my father	father's dates				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Patient
2	is	present	dates = date			now	all, safe property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	father		father			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent 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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