The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 67

When the dwarf perceived what they were about he yelled to them: “Do you call that manners, you toad-stools! to disfigure a fellow’s face?

Who acts: dwarf, dwarfs, scissors · What happens: perceive, be, call, stool, disfigure · To what, where: scissors, manners, face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf, dwarfs, scissors), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 perceived	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dwarf	det
3	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	nsubj
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 yelled	advcl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 perceived	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 yelled	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 yelled	cop
8	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 yelled	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 yelled	nsubj
10	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 yelled	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 call	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 call	punct
15	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 call	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 call	nsubj
17	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 yelled	parataxis
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 manners	det
19	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 call	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stools	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 stools	nsubj
22	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stools	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 toad	punct
24	stools	stool	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 call	obl
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 call	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 disfigure	mark
27	disfigure	disfigure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 call	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 fellow	det
29	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 face	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 fellow	case
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 disfigure	obj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 yelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	the dwarf				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	be speech: express	past	dwarfs = dwarf		scissors	yell property	tree rules
3	call in a quote	present · do-support	scissors	that manners			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent manners=Recipient
4	stool in a quote		scissors				tree rules
5	disfigure in a quote	to-infinitive	scissors not said here	a fellow's face			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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