The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 82
One day, news was brought to the sultan that the dates were ripe, and he ordered one of his men to go and watch the tree.
Who acts: dates, sultan, one · What happens: bring, be, order, go, watch · To what, where: news, sultan, one, 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 (dates, sultan, one), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | aux:pass |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sultan | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sultan | det |
| 9 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 ripe | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dates | det |
| 12 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ripe | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ripe | cop |
| 14 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brought | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ordered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ordered | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ordered | nsubj |
| 18 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | advcl |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 ordered | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 men | nmod:poss |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ordered | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 watch | cc |
| 26 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 go | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 watch | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | news | the sultan | day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to sultan=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | the dates | ripe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | order | past | sultan | one of sultan's men | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | one of sultan's men not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | watch | infinitive | one of sultan's men not said here | the tree | 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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