The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 57
And he will drive me away, as he drove away my brother!
Who acts: sun · What happens: drive away · To what, where: me, brother
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 drive | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drive | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 drive | aux |
| 4 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 drive | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 drive | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drove | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 drove | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drove | nsubj |
| 10 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drive | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 drove | advmod |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drove | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive away | future | sun | me | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | drive away | past | sun | my brother | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=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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