The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 26
The cobbler’s wife felt much disgusted at seeing her wares treated like this, but she dared not speak.
Who acts: wife · What happens: feel, disgust, see, treat, speak · To what, where: wares · 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 (wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cobbler | det |
| 2 | cobbler | cobbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 cobbler | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 disgusted | advmod |
| 7 | disgusted | disgust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 9 seeing | mark |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 disgusted | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wares | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seeing | obj |
| 12 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wares | acl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 treated | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 speak | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 speak | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 speak | nsubj |
| 18 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 speak | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 dared | advmod |
| 20 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 felt | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the cobbler's wife | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | disgust | participle | the cobbler's wife not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | gerund | the cobbler's wife not said here | wife's wares | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ware=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | treat | participle | wife's wares not said here | like this | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past | wife | 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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