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The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 59

Then he got up and took a road that led straight past the palace, but he had not walked many steps before he met a man carrying a large silver dish, covered with a white cloth to cover the dates.

Who acts: sun, road, man · What happens: get up, take, lead, not walk, meet, carry · To what, where: road, palace, many steps, man, large silver dish, dates

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, road, man), 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

advmodnsubjcompound:prtccconjdetobjnsubjacl:relcladvmodcasedetobjpunctccnsubjauxadvmodconjamodobjmarknsubjadvcldetobjacldetamodcompoundobjpunctconjcasedetamodoblmarkadvcldetobjpunctrootThenADVhePRONgotVERBupADPandCCONJtookVERBaDETroadNOUNthatPRONledVERBstraightADVpastADPtheDETpalaceNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONhadAUXnotPARTwalkedVERBmanyADJstepsNOUNbeforeSCONJhePRONmetVERBaDETmanNOUNcarryingVERBaDETlargeADJsilverNOUNdishNOUN,PUNCTcoveredVERBwithADPaDETwhiteADJclothNOUNtoPARTcoverVERBtheDETdatesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 gotadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 gotnsubj
3gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4upupADP_3 gotcompound:prt
5andandCCONJ_6 tookcc
6tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 gotconj
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 roaddet
8roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing6 tookobj
9thatthatPRONPronType=Rel10 lednsubj
10ledleadVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 roadacl:relcl
11straightstraightADV_14 palaceadvmod
12pastpastADP_14 palacecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 palacedet
14palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing10 ledobj
15,,PUNCT_20 walkedpunct
16butbutCCONJ_20 walkedcc
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 walkednsubj
18hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 walkedaux
19notnotPARTPolarity=Neg20 walkedadvmod
20walkedwalkVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part3 gotconj
21manymanyADJDegree=Pos22 stepsamod
22stepsstepNOUNNumber=Plur20 walkedobj
23beforebeforeSCONJ_25 metmark
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 metnsubj
25metmeetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 walkedadvcl
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 mandet
27manmanNOUNNumber=Sing25 metobj
28carryingcarryVERBVerbForm=Ger27 manacl
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 dishdet
30largelargeADJDegree=Pos32 dishamod
31silversilverNOUNNumber=Sing32 dishcompound
32dishdishNOUNNumber=Sing28 carryingobj
33,,PUNCT_34 coveredpunct
34coveredcoverVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 metconj
35withwithADP_38 clothcase
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 clothdet
37whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos38 clothamod
38clothclothNOUNNumber=Sing34 coveredobl
39totoPART_40 covermark
40covercoverVERBVerbForm=Inf34 coveredadvcl
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 datesdet
42datesdateNOUNNumber=Plur40 coverobj
43..PUNCT_3 gotpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1get uppastsunthenvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2takepastsun not said herea roadvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
3leadpasta roadthe palacevn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
4not walkpast · perfectsunmany stepsvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory
5meetpastsuna manvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
6carrygerunda man not said herea large silver dishvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme
7coverparticiplesun not said herewith a white clothvn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloth=Theme
8coverto-infinitivesun not said herethe datesvn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme date=Destination

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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