The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 7
Time passed, and one day the sultan, to his great joy, saw signs of fruit on his date tree.
Who acts: sultan · What happens: pass, see, joy, sign · To what, where: signs, date tree, fruit
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), 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sultan | det |
| 8 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 joy | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 joy | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 joy | nmod:poss |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 joy | amod |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sultan | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 joy | punct |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 16 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saw | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fruit | case |
| 18 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 signs | nmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tree | nmod:poss |
| 21 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | compound |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the sultan | signs of fruit | sultan's date tree | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | joy | sultan | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | sign | fruit | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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