The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 101

The part of the town was out of the way, and Jem did not know the many narrow streets in it and was puzzled by their windings and by the crowd of people, who seemed excited about some show.

Who acts: part, Jem, windings, people · What happens: be, not know, puzzle, seem · To what, where: way, many narrow streets, part

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (part, Jem, windings, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 part	det
2	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 way	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 part	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 way	cop
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 way	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 know	cc
13	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 know	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 way	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 streets	det
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 streets	amod
19	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 streets	amod
20	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 know	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 streets	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 puzzled	cc
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 puzzled	aux:pass
25	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 know	conj
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 windings	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 windings	nmod:poss
28	windings	winding	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 puzzled	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 crowd	cc
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 crowd	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 crowd	det
32	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 windings	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 people	case
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 crowd	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 seemed	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 seemed	nsubj
37	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 people	acl:relcl
38	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 seemed	xcomp
39	about	about	ADP	_	41 show	case
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 show	det
41	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 excited	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the part of the town		the way		tree rules
2	not know	past · do-support	Jem	the many narrow streets	part		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer street=Stimulus
3	puzzle	past · passive	streets's windings and the crowd of people				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	seem	past	people			excited property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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