The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 90

But the boy entreated, saying, ‘Father, if you and I and mother be alive to-morrow, you shall eat the dates.’

Who acts: boy, you · What happens: entreat, say, be, eat · To what, where: Father, dates · 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, you), 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 entreated	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entreated	nsubj
4	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 entreated	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Father	punct
8	‘	‘	ADP	_	9 Father	case
9	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 saying	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 you	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 you	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 alive	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 I	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 you	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mother	cc
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 you	conj
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 alive	cop
18	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saying	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 morrow	case
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 to	punct
21	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 alive	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eat	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 eat	nsubj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 eat	aux
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 entreated	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dates	det
27	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 eat	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 eat	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	entreat	past	the boy			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the boy not said here	Father		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic
3	is	infinitive	you		to morrow; alive property	tree rules
4	eat	shall	you	the dates		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Patient

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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