The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 61
And the slave went with him to the palace, where the sultan was sitting with his four sons.
Who acts: slave, sultan · What happens: go, sit · To what, where: palace
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, sultan), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 slave | det |
| 3 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sitting | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 sitting | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sultan | det |
| 13 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sitting | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sitting | aux |
| 15 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 palace | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 sons | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sons | nmod:poss |
| 18 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 sons | nummod |
| 19 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sitting | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the slave | the palace | with sun | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | the sultan | with sun's four sons | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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