The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 6

His wife sold the fruit and vegetables they grew in their garden in the Market Place, and as she was always neat and clean and her goods were temptingly spread out she had plenty of customers.

Who acts: wife, fruit · What happens: sell, grow, be, spread out, have · To what, where: garden, goods, plenty

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 (wife, fruit), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	nsubj
3	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fruit	det
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grew	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 vegetables	cc
7	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fruit	conj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grew	nsubj
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sold	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 garden	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 garden	nmod:poss
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grew	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 Place	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Place	det
15	Market	Market	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Place	compound
16	Place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grew	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 neat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 neat	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 neat	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 neat	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 neat	cop
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 neat	advmod
23	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 clean	cc
25	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 neat	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 spread	cc
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 goods	nmod:poss
28	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	31 spread	nsubj:pass
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 spread	aux:pass
30	temptingly	temptingly	ADV	_	31 spread	advmod
31	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 neat	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 spread	compound:prt
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 spread	parataxis
35	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 customers	case
37	customers	customer	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 plenty	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sell	past	man's wife				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	the fruit and vegetables		fruit's garden	in the Market Place	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location
3	is	past	wife			always, neat property	tree rules
4	be		wife not said here				tree rules
5	spread out	past · passive		wife's goods		temptingly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
6	have	past	wife	plenty of customers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient

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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