The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 75
I have had seven sons, yet for five years a bird has devoured my dates; and this year it will be the same as ever.’
Who acts: I, year · What happens: have, devour, be · To what, where: seven sons, bird
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 (I, year), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | aux |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sons | nummod |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 devoured | punct |
| 7 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 14 devoured | cc |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 devoured | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 devoured | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 devoured | aux |
| 14 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dates | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 devoured | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 same | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 same | cc |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 year | det |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 same | nsubj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 same | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 same | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 same | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 same | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | conj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 ever | case |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 same | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | I | seven sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | devour | present · perfect · passive | a bird | year | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | future | this year | same property | 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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