The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 51

‘Where are my slippers, lazy crew?’ cried the old woman, and hit about with her stick.

Who acts: slippers · What happens: be, cry, hit · To what, where: slippers, old woman

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 (slippers), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 slippers	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 slippers	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slippers	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 slippers	nmod:poss
5	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cried	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 crew	punct
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crew	amod
8	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slippers	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 slippers	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 slippers	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hit	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hit	cc
17	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	parataxis
18	about	about	ADV	_	17 hit	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 stick	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 stick	nmod:poss
21	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hit	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		my slippers and lazy crew		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	my slippers and lazy crew	the old woman		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
3	hit	past			with woman's stick; about property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with stick=Instrument

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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