The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 67

And the sultan looked at the four sons that were left him, and promised rich gifts to whichever of them would bring him the dates from the tree.

Who acts: sultan, rich gifts · What happens: look, leave, promise, bring · To what, where: four sons, dates, sultan, tree · 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 (sultan, rich gifts), 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 looked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sultan	det
3	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 sons	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sons	det
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sons	nummod
8	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 left	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	aux:pass
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sons	acl:relcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 promised	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 promised	cc
15	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
16	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gifts	amod
17	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bring	nsubj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 whichever	case
19	whichever	whichever	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gifts	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 whichever	nmod
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bring	aux
23	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 promised	ccomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bring	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 dates	det
26	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bring	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 tree	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tree	det
29	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	the sultan				at the four sons	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at son=Theme
2	leave	past · passive		the four sons				vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute
3	promise speech: promise	past	the sultan not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bring	would	rich gifts to whichever of sons	the dates	sultan	the tree		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination date=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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