The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 56

My whole body is well, and my whole body is sick I fear my father, for did I not say to him, “To-morrow at seven you shall taste the dates”?

Who acts: whole body, I, sun · What happens: be, fear, not say, taste · To what, where: father, sun, dates · 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 (whole body, I, 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 body	nmod:poss
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 body	amod
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sick	nsubj:outer
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sick	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 is	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sick	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sick	cc
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 body	nmod:poss
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 body	amod
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sick	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sick	cop
12	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 fear	nsubj
14	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sick	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fear	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 say	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 say	mark
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 say	aux
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 say	nsubj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 say	advmod
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fear	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 say	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 taste	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 taste	punct
27	To	to	ADP	_	29 morrow	case
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 To	punct
29	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 taste	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 seven	case
31	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 morrow	nmod
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 taste	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 taste	aux
34	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 say	ccomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dates	det
36	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 taste	obj
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 taste	punct
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 sick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	My whole body			sick property	tree rules
2	fear	present	I	my father			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus
3	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	I		sun		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	taste in a quote	shall	sun	the dates		to morrow at seven	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme date=Attribute

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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