The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 74

But the sultan only shook his head, and said sadly, ‘What is that to me?

Who acts: sultan, that · What happens: shake, say, be · To what, where: head, me · 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, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 shook	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sultan	det
3	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shook	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 shook	advmod
5	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shook	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shook	conj
11	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 What	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 What	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 said	ccomp
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 What	cop
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 What	nsubj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 What	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the sultan	sultan's head			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the sultan not said here			sadly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	that		me		tree rules

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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