The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 4
They were poor and hard-working.
Who acts: cobbler · What happens: be, work
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 (cobbler), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 poor | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 poor | cop |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 working | cc |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 working | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 7 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 poor | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cobbler | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | gerund | cobbler not said here | vn employment-95.3 «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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