The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 71
Towards dawn they fell asleep, and the bird ate the dates on the tree.
Who acts: Towards dawn, bird · What happens: fall, eat · To what, where: dates, tree
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 (Towards dawn, bird), 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dawn | compound |
| 2 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fell | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ate | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ate | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ate | nsubj |
| 10 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dates | det |
| 12 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ate | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ate | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Towards dawn | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | the bird | the dates | the tree | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=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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