The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 50
When the sun rose, the head-man came and looked for the dates, and there were no dates.
Who acts: sun, head man, dates · What happens: rise, come, look, be
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 (sun, head man, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 rose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 head | punct |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 dates | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dates | det |
| 15 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 looked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 were | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 were | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 were | expl |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 dates | det |
| 21 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 were | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the head man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | the head man not said here | for the dates | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for date=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | past | no dates | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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