The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 86
But the boy replied: ‘Have patience to-day, and let me go, and to-morrow you shall see whether I bring you dates or not.’
Who acts: boy, me, you, I · What happens: reply, have, let, go, see, bring · To what, where: patience, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy, me, you, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Have | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Have | punct |
| 7 | Have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Have | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 patience | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 Have | parataxis |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 see | cc |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 morrow | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 to | punct |
| 21 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 see | obl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Have | conj |
| 25 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 27 bring | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 bring | nsubj |
| 27 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | advcl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 dates | nsubj |
| 29 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bring | obj |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 not | cc |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 dates | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Have | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the boy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | infinitive | patience | to day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | me not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | shall | you | to morrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | bring | present | I | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | date | you | 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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