The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 54
His slave became frightened as he looked at him, and asked, ‘My master, what is it?’
Who acts: slave, sun · What happens: become, frighten, look, ask, be · To what, where: master
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 (slave, sun), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 slave | nmod:poss |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 looked | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 master | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 master | punct |
| 15 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 what | punct |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 master | parataxis |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 it | cop |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 what | nsubj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | sun's slave | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | frighten | participle | sun's slave not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | look | past | sun | at tongue | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | sun's slave not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | master | tree rules |
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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