The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 34

As she spoke she shuffled towards the hamper of cabbages, took up one after another, squeezed them hard, and threw them back, muttering again, ‘Bad stuff, bad stuff.’

Who acts: woman · What happens: speak, shuffle, take up, squeeze, throw back, mutter · To what, where: hamper, one, cabbages, Bad stuff · 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 (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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 spoke	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shuffled	advcl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shuffled	nsubj
5	shuffled	shuffle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 hamper	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hamper	det
8	hamper	hamper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shuffled	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cabbages	case
10	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hamper	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shuffled	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 took	compound:prt
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 took	obj
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 another	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 one	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 squeezed	punct
18	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 squeezed	obj
20	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 squeezed	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 threw	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 threw	cc
23	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shuffled	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 threw	obj
25	back	back	ADV	_	23 threw	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 muttering	punct
27	muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 threw	advcl
28	again	again	ADV	_	27 muttering	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stuff	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 stuff	punct
31	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stuff	amod
32	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 muttering	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stuff	punct
34	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 stuff	amod
35	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stuff	appos
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shuffled	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 shuffled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	woman					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shuffle	past	woman		the hamper of cabbages			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards hamper=Destination
3	take up	past	woman not said here	one		after another		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	squeeze	past	woman not said here	cabbages = cabbage			hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	throw back	past	woman not said here	cabbages = cabbage				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	mutter speech: assert	gerund	woman not said here	Bad stuff		again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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