The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 61

First came in guinea pigs in men’s clothing.

What happens: come · To what, where: clothing

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: 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 pigs	case
4	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pigs	compound
5	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 clothing	case
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 clothing	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 men	case
9	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past				men's clothing		in guinea pigs; first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pig=Location

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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