The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 5

Six of them he was proud of, for they were strong and manly, but the youngest he disliked, for he spent all his time among the women of the house.

Who acts: Six, sons, youngest, sultan · What happens: be, dislike, spend

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 (Six, sons, youngest, sultan), 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	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 proud	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Six	nmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 proud	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 proud	cop
6	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 proud	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 strong	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 strong	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 strong	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 strong	cop
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 proud	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 manly	cc
14	manly	manly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 strong	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 disliked	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 disliked	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 youngest	det
18	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 disliked	nsubj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 disliked	nsubj
20	disliked	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 proud	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spent	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 spent	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 spent	nsubj
24	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 disliked	conj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 time	det:predet
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 time	nmod:poss
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spent	obj
28	among	among	ADP	_	30 women	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 women	det
30	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 spent	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 house	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 women	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 proud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Six of sons		proud property	tree rules
2	is	past	sons = son		strong property	tree rules
3	be		sons = son not said here			tree rules
4	dislike	past	the youngest			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
5	spend	past	sultan	time	among the women of the house	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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