The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 122
Then all the market women came round and talked all together and scolded as hard as they could, and said what a shame it was to make game of Mrs. Hannah, who had never got over the loss of her beautiful boy, who had been stolen from her seven years ago, and they threatened to fall upon Jem and scratch him well if he did not go away at once.
Who acts: market women, game, limbs, boy · What happens: come round, talk, scold, say, make, not get · To what, where: game, loss, beautiful boy, Jem, boy · 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 (market women, game, limbs, boy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 women | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 women | det |
| 4 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 women | compound |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | round | round | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 talked | cc |
| 9 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 together | advmod |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 talked | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 scolded | cc |
| 13 | scolded | scold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 talked | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 hard | advmod |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 scolded | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 could | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 could | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hard | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 said | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 shame | det |
| 24 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 what | nsubj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 was | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 shame | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 make | mark |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 was | xcomp |
| 29 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Mrs. | case |
| 31 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 game | nmod |
| 32 | Hannah | Hannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Mrs. | flat |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 got | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 got | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 got | aux |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 got | advmod |
| 37 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 game | acl |
| 38 | over | over | ADP | _ | 40 loss | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 loss | det |
| 40 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 got | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 boy | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 boy | nmod:poss |
| 43 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 boy | amod |
| 44 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 loss | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 stolen | punct |
| 46 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 stolen | aux |
| 48 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 stolen | aux:pass |
| 49 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 boy | acl:relcl |
| 50 | from | from | ADP | _ | 53 years | case |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 years | nmod:poss |
| 52 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 53 years | nummod |
| 53 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 54 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 49 stolen | advmod |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 threatened | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 threatened | cc |
| 57 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 threatened | nsubj |
| 58 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 got | conj |
| 59 | to | to | PART | _ | 60 fall | mark |
| 60 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 threatened | xcomp |
| 61 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 62 Jem | case |
| 62 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 fall | obl |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 scratch | cc |
| 64 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 60 fall | conj |
| 65 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 64 scratch | obj |
| 66 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 64 scratch | advmod |
| 67 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 71 go | mark |
| 68 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 71 go | nsubj |
| 69 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 71 go | aux |
| 70 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 71 go | advmod |
| 71 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 64 scratch | advcl |
| 72 | away | away | ADV | _ | 71 go | advmod |
| 73 | at | at | ADP | _ | 74 once | case |
| 74 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 71 go | obl |
| 75 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come round | past | all market women | then | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | talk | past | all market women not said here | together property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | scold | participle | all market women not said here | hard property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | all market women not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | all market women not said here | game of Mrs. | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product | ||||
| 6 | not get | past · perfect | game of Mrs. | the loss of woman's beautiful boy | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over loss=Destination | ||||
| 7 | steal | past · perfect · passive | woman's beautiful boy | ago property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 8 | threaten | past | limbs = limb | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | fall not said to happen | to-infinitive | limbs = limb not said here | Jem | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon jem=Location | ||||
| 10 | scratch | infinitive | limbs = limb not said here | boy | well property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 11 | not go away a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | boy | away property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
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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