The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 69

One son tried to keep himself awake with playing cards; another mounted a horse and rode round and round the tree, while the two others, whom their father as a last hope sent together, lit bonfires.

Who acts: One son, two others · What happens: try, keep, play, mount, round, father · To what, where: sultan, cards, horse, tree, last hope

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 (One son, two others), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 son	nummod
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 keep	obj
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	xcomp
8	with	with	SCONJ	_	9 playing	mark
9	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 keep	advcl
10	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 playing	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 mounted	punct
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 mounted	advmod
13	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mounted	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rode	cc
17	rode	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 horse	conj
18	round	round	ADV	_	13 mounted	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 round	cc
20	round	round	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 mounted	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 round	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 others	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 others	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 others	det
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 others	nummod
27	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mounted	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 father	punct
29	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 father	nsubj
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 others	nmod
32	as	as	ADP	_	35 hope	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 hope	det
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hope	amod
35	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 father	nmod
36	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 hope	acl
37	together	together	ADV	_	36 sent	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 bonfires	punct
39	lit	lit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 bonfires	amod
40	bonfires	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 father	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	One son			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	One son not said here	sultan	awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	play	gerund	One son not said here	cards		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme
4	mount	past	One son not said here	a horse and rode	the two others obl; round property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
5	round	infinitive	One son not said here	the tree		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
6	father		the two others		as a last hope	tree rules
7	send	participle		a last hope not said here	together property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: 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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