The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 80
This time, I will watch the date tree myself.’
Who acts: I · What happens: watch · To what, where: date 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 (I), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watch | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 watch | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 watch | aux |
| 6 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 8 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watch | obj |
| 10 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 6 watch | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 watch | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | future | I | the date tree | time | myself obl:unmarked | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
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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