The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 78
‘Father, this year you shall eat dates,’ cried he.
Who acts: you, Father · What happens: eat, cry · To what, where: dates
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 (you, Father), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 year | punct |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Father | appos |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 eat | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 eat | aux |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 year | acl:relcl |
| 9 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | shall | you | dates | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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