The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 102

From what he heard, he fancied they were going to see a dwarf, for he heard them call out: ‘Just look at the ugly dwarf!’

Who acts: house, streets · What happens: hear, fancy, go, see, call out, look · To what, where: dwarf, streets

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 (house, streets), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fancied	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fancied	nsubj
7	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 going	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 fancied	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 going	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dwarf	det
14	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 see	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 heard	case
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	obj
20	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 heard	xcomp
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 call	compound:prt
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 look	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 look	punct
24	Just	just	ADV	_	25 look	advmod
25	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 what	parataxis
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 dwarf	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dwarf	det
28	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dwarf	amod
29	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 look	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 look	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	house			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	fancy	past	house			vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past · progressive	streets = street			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	to-infinitive	streets = street not said here	a dwarf		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dwarf=Stimulus
5	hear	past	house	streets = street		tree rules
6	call out speech: assert	infinitive	streets = street not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	look	infinitive			at the ugly dwarf	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dwarf=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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