The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 120
‘Well, did you ever hear such impudence?’ asked Hannah, turning to a neighbour.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, hear, ask, turn · To what, where: such impudence, Hannah, neighbour · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 hear | nsubj |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 hear | advmod |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 impudence | amod |
| 9 | impudence | impudence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hear | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Hannah | Hannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turning | punct |
| 15 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 asked | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 neighbour | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 neighbour | det |
| 18 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turning | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | hear | present | you | such impudence | ever | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer impudence=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Hannah | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent hannah=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | turn | gerund | a neighbour | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to neighbour=Trajectory |
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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