The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 99

‘Son of Adam,’ the bird said when the tops of the mountains looked small below them, ‘if you fall, you will be dead long before you reach the ground, so go your way, and let me go mine.’

Who acts: bird, tops, you, me · What happens: say, look, fall, be, reach, go · To what, where: Son, ground, way, me, mine · 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 (bird, tops, you, me), 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	_	2 Son	punct
2	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Adam	case
4	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Son	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
6	’	'	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 looked	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tops	det
12	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 looked	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 mountains	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mountains	det
15	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tops	nmod
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 looked	xcomp
18	below	below	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dead	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 dead	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 fall	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 fall	nsubj
24	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 dead	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fall	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 dead	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 dead	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 dead	cop
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 looked	conj
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 dead	advmod
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	33 reach	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 reach	nsubj
33	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 long	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ground	det
35	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reach	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 go	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 go	advmod
38	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 way	nmod:poss
40	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 go	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 let	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 let	cc
43	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	38 go	conj
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 let	obj
45	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 let	xcomp
46	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 go	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 go	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	38 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the bird	Son of Adam		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	past	the tops of the mountains		below mountains = mountain; small property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent below they=Theme
3	fall a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	future	you		dead, long property	tree rules
5	reach	present	you	the ground		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=Theme
6	go	infinitive		your way		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	let	infinitive		me		tree rules
8	go	infinitive	me not said here	mine		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location my=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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