The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 25

I wonder if you’ve got what I want,’ said the old woman as she thrust a pair of hideous brown hands into the herb basket, and began turning over all the neatly packed herbs with her skinny fingers, often holding them up to her nose and sniffing at them.

Who acts: I, you, old woman, woman · What happens: wonder, get, want, say, thrust, begin · To what, where: pair, herb basket, packed herbs, herbs · 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 (I, you, old woman, woman), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wonder	nsubj
2	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 got	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
5	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 got	aux
6	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 want	obj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 want	nsubj
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 got	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wonder	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 thrust	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thrust	nsubj
18	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pair	det
20	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thrust	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 hands	case
22	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hands	amod
23	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hands	amod
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pair	nmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	28 basket	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 basket	det
27	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 basket	compound
28	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thrust	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 began	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 began	cc
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
32	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 began	xcomp
33	over	over	ADP	_	38 herbs	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 herbs	det:predet
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 herbs	det
36	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	37 packed	advmod
37	packed	packed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 herbs	amod
38	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 turning	obl
39	with	with	ADP	_	42 fingers	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 fingers	nmod:poss
41	skinny	skinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fingers	compound
42	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 turning	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 holding	punct
44	often	often	ADV	_	45 holding	advmod
45	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 turning	advcl
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 holding	obj
47	up	up	ADP	_	45 holding	compound:prt
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 nose	case
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 nose	nmod:poss
50	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 holding	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 sniffing	cc
52	sniffing	sniff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 holding	conj
53	at	at	ADP	_	54 them	case
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 sniffing	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	present	I				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	get a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	want	present	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the old woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	thrust	past	woman	a pair of hideous brown hands	the herb basket		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme
6	begin	past	the old woman not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	turn	gerund	the old woman not said here		all packed herbs	with woman's skinny fingers	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over herb=Trajectory
8	hold up	gerund	the old woman not said here	herbs = herb		to woman's nose; often property	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
9	sniff	gerund	the old woman not said here			at herbs = herb	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme

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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