The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 92
When the boy reached the garden, he told the slaves to leave him, and to return home themselves and sleep.
Who acts: boy · What happens: reach, tell, leave, return, sleep · To what, where: garden, slaves, boy · 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), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 slaves | det |
| 11 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 told | iobj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 leave | mark |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 told | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 return | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 return | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 return | mark |
| 18 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 leave | conj |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 return | advmod |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 return | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sleep | cc |
| 22 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 leave | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the boy | the garden | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent garden=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | boy | the slaves | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy not said here | boy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | return | to-infinitive | boy not said here | slaves = slave | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | sleep | present | boy not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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