The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 18

‘Well! you son of Long Hans, isn’t this more comfortable than your juniper bush?’ laughed the stranger, and for answer Hans replied he could not thank his friend enough for having brought him here, and, throwing off his sheepskin, rolled it up as a pillow.

Who acts: you, son, Hans, throwing · What happens: son, not be, laugh, reply, not thank, bring · To what, where: stranger, friend, son, sheepskin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, son, Hans, throwing), 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	_	5 son	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 son	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 son	nsubj
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comfortable	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Long	case
7	Long	Long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 son	nmod
8	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Long	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 comfortable	cop
11	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 comfortable	advmod
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 comfortable	nsubj
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 comfortable	advmod
14	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	than	than	ADP	_	18 bush	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 bush	nmod:poss
17	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bush	compound
18	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comfortable	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 comfortable	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 laughed	punct
21	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 comfortable	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stranger	det
23	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laughed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 replied	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 replied	cc
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 answer	case
27	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 replied	obl
28	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 replied	nsubj
29	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 comfortable	advcl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thank	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 thank	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 thank	advmod
33	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 replied	ccomp
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 friend	nmod:poss
35	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thank	obj
36	enough	enough	ADV	_	33 thank	advmod
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 brought	mark
38	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 brought	aux
39	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 thank	advcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 brought	obj
41	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 brought	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 rolled	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 rolled	cc
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 throwing	punct
45	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 rolled	csubj
46	off	off	ADP	_	45 throwing	compound:prt
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 sheepskin	nmod:poss
48	sheepskin	sheepskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 throwing	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 throwing	punct
50	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 comfortable	conj
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 rolled	obj
52	up	up	ADP	_	50 rolled	compound:prt
53	as	as	ADP	_	55 pillow	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 pillow	det
55	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 rolled	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 comfortable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	son		you				of Long	tree rules
2	not is	present	son				than your juniper bush; comfortable property	tree rules
3	laugh	past	son not said here	the stranger				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme
4	reply speech: assert	past	Hans				for answer	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not thank speech: thank	could	son		son's friend		enough property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
6	bring	gerund · perfect	son not said here		son	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
7	throw off	gerund		son's sheepskin				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheepskin=Theme
8	roll up	past	throwing	sheepskin			as a pillow	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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