The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 17

She looked very torn and ragged, and had a small sharp face, all wrinkled, with red eyes, and a thin hooked nose which nearly met her chin.

Who acts: woman, thin hooked nose · What happens: look, tear, have, wrinkle, hook, meet · To what, where: small sharp face, chin

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 (woman, thin hooked nose), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 torn	advmod
4	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 looked	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ragged	cc
6	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 torn	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 face	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 face	amod
12	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 face	amod
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eyes	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 eyes	nsubj
16	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 eyes	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eyes	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 eyes	case
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 eyes	amod
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 face	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 met	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 met	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 nose	det
24	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 nose	amod
25	hooked	hook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 nose	amod
26	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 met	nsubj
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 met	nsubj
28	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	29 met	advmod
29	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	conj
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 chin	nmod:poss
31	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 met	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	woman			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	tear	participle	woman not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past		a small sharp face and wrinkled red eyes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
4	wrinkle	participle				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	hook	participle				vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
6	meet	past	a thin hooked nose	woman's chin	nearly property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chin=Co-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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