The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 84
‘How is it that you have bidden a man to watch the tree, when I, your son, am left?’
Who acts: I, am · What happens: be, watch, son, leave · To what, where: order, 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, am), 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 | _ | 8 bidden | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 bidden | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bidden | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bidden | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 bidden | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 bidden | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bidden | aux |
| 8 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 left | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bidden | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 watch | mark |
| 12 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bidden | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 watch | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 son | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 son | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 son | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 son | punct |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 left | punct |
| 22 | am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 left | nsubj |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 left | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect · passive | order | bid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | the tree and your son | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | |||||
| 3 | son | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | leave | participle | am | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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