The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 5

The man sat all day in a little stall at the street corner and mended any shoes that were brought him.

Who acts: man · What happens: sit, mend, bring · To what, where: little stall, shoes

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 (man), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl:unmarked
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 stall	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stall	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stall	amod
9	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 corner	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 corner	det
12	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 corner	compound
13	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mended	cc
15	mended	mend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 shoes	det
17	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mended	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 brought	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 brought	aux:pass
20	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 shoes	acl:relcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 brought	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the man		a little stall	day	at the street corner	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stall=Location
2	mend	past	the man not said here	any shoes				tree rules
3	bring	past · passive		any shoes				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination

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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