The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 64
They too walked on their hind legs, wore full Turkish trousers, and little green velvet caps on their heads.
Who acts: pigs · What happens: walk, wear · To what, where: little green velvet caps, hind legs, full Turkish trousers
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 (pigs), 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 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 legs | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 legs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legs | amod |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wore | punct |
| 9 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trousers | amod |
| 11 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trousers | amod |
| 12 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wore | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 caps | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 caps | cc |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 caps | amod |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 caps | amod |
| 17 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caps | compound |
| 18 | caps | cap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walked | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 heads | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heads | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 caps | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | pigs = pig | little green velvet caps on pigs's heads | pigs's hind legs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | wear | past | pigs = pig not said here | full Turkish trousers | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent trousers=Source |
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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