The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 124

He was sure he had gone to market with his mother only that morning, had helped to set out the stall, had gone to the old woman’s house, where he had some soup and a little nap, and now, when he came back, they were all talking of seven years.

Who acts: boy, games · What happens: be, go, help, set out, have, come back · To what, where: market, stall, house, soup

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 (boy, games), 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	3 sure	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sure	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 market	mark
8	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 mother	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 market	nmod
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 morning	advmod
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 morning	det
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 helped	punct
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 helped	aux
17	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sure	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 set	mark
19	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 helped	xcomp
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 set	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stall	det
22	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gone	punct
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gone	aux
25	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 helped	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	31 house	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woman	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	amod
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 house	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 woman	case
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gone	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 had	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 house	acl:relcl
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 soup	det
37	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 nap	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 nap	det
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 nap	amod
41	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 soup	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 came	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 came	cc
44	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 came	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 came	punct
46	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	48 came	advmod
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 came	nsubj
48	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	parataxis
49	back	back	ADV	_	48 came	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 talking	punct
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 talking	nsubj
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 talking	aux
53	all	all	ADV	_	54 talking	advmod
54	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 came	advcl
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 years	case
56	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	57 years	nummod
57	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 talking	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	boy				sure property	tree rules
2	go	past · perfect	boy	market with boy's mother		morning		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	help	past · perfect	boy not said here					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	set out	to-infinitive	boy not said here	the stall				tree rules
5	go	past · perfect	boy not said here		the old woman's house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
6	have	past	boy	some soup and a little nap				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient
7	come back	past	boy			now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	talk	past · progressive	games = game			year	all property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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