The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 54
Now all limping and shuffling was at an end.
Who acts: limping · What happens: be · To what, where: end
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 (limping), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 end | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 limping | det |
| 3 | limping | limping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shuffling | cc |
| 5 | shuffling | shuffling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 limping | conj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 end | cop |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all limping and shuffling | at a end; now | tree rules |
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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