The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 60

And the young man said, ‘The dates are not ripe yet; you must return to-morrow.’

Who acts: young man, dates, you · What happens: say, not be, return · 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 (young man, dates, you), 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	_	5 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ripe	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 ripe	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dates	det
9	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ripe	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ripe	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 ripe	advmod
12	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 ripe	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 return	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 return	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 return	aux
17	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 morrow	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 to	punct
20	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 return	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 return	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the young man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is	present	the dates	yet	ripe property	tree rules
3	return	must	you		to morrow result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to morrow=Result

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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