The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 62
They had tied on large kitchen aprons, and in their belts were stuck carving knives and sauce ladles and such things.
What happens: tie, be, carve · To what, where: pigs, belts
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tied | aux |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 aprons | case |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 aprons | amod |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 aprons | compound |
| 7 | aprons | apron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tied | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stuck | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stuck | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 belts | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 belts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stuck | obl |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stuck | cop |
| 14 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tied | advcl |
| 15 | carving | carve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 knives | amod |
| 16 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stuck | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ladles | cc |
| 18 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ladles | compound |
| 19 | ladles | ladle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 knives | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 things | cc |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 knives | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past · perfect · passive | pigs = pig | on large kitchen aprons | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient on apron=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | pigs's belts | stuck property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carve | gerund | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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