The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 107

He hesitated what to do, but at last he slipped behind her, laid a hand on her arm, and said: ‘Mammy, what’s the matter?

Who acts: head, Mammy · What happens: hesitate, do, slip, lay, say · To what, where: last, hand · 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 (head, Mammy), 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	2 hesitated	nsubj
2	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hesitated	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laid	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 laid	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laid	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 slipped	nsubj
11	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 last	acl:relcl
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 slipped	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 last	punct
15	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hesitated	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hand	det
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laid	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 arm	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arm	nmod:poss
20	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hesitated	parataxis
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Mammy	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 Mammy	punct
26	Mammy	Mammy	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ’s	punct
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 ’s	nsubj
29	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 Mammy	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 matter	det
31	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ’s	obj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 hesitated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hesitate	past	head				tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	head not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	slip	past	head	last not said here		behind mother	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent last=Patient
4	lay	past	head not said here	a hand	last	on mother's arm	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme at last=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	Mammy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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