The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 105
He was quite puzzled when he reached the market-place.
Who acts: head · What happens: puzzle, reach · To what, where: head, market place
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 puzzled | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 puzzled | aux:pass |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 puzzled | advmod |
| 4 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 reached | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 puzzled | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 9 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 market | punct |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 puzzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puzzle | past · passive | head | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | head | the market place | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=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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