The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 53
They rushed upstairs again and returned with a pair of cocoa nuts lined with leather, which she put on her feet.
Who acts: slippers, leather · What happens: rush, return, line, put · To what, where: cocoa nuts, feet
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, leather), 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 | 2 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 2 rushed | advmod |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 rushed | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 returned | cc |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 pair | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pair | det |
| 9 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 nuts | case |
| 11 | cocoa | cocoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nuts | compound |
| 12 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pair | nmod |
| 13 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 nuts | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 leather | case |
| 15 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lined | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 put | nsubj:outer |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | nsubj |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 leather | acl:relcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 feet | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 feet | nmod:poss |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 put | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | slippers = slipper | again | upstairs property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | return | past | slippers = slipper not said here | with a pair of cocoa nuts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | line | participle | cocoa nuts not said here | with leather | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with leather=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | past | leather | Jem's feet | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on foot=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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