The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 49
The old woman took out a silver whistle and blew it till the sound rang through the house.
Who acts: old woman, sound · What happens: take out, blow, ring · To what, where: silver whistle, whistle, house
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 (old woman, sound), 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 | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 whistle | det |
| 7 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 whistle | amod |
| 8 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blew | cc |
| 10 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 blew | obj |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 rang | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sound | det |
| 14 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rang | nsubj |
| 15 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blew | advcl |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rang | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | the old woman | a silver whistle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blow | past | the old woman not said here | whistle | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ring | past | the sound | the house | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through house=Location |
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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