The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 103

‘What a long nose he has, and see how his head is stuck in between his shoulders, and only look at his ugly brown hands!’

Who acts: long nose, head · What happens: have, see, be, look · To what, where: shoulders · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (long nose, head), 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	_	7 has	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 nose	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nose	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nose	amod
5	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 has	xcomp
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 stuck	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stuck	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stuck	cop
15	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 see	ccomp
16	in	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	19 shoulders	case
17	between	between	ADP	_	16 in	fixed
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 shoulders	nmod:poss
19	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stuck	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 look	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 look	cc
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 look	advmod
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 has	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	28 hands	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hands	nmod:poss
26	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hands	amod
27	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hands	amod
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 look	obl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	what long nose			tree rules
2	see	infinitive	what long nose not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	nose's head	nose's shoulders	stuck property	tree rules
4	look	infinitive	what long nose not said here		at nose's ugly brown hands	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hand=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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