The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 65

They seemed to be the scullions, for they clambered up the walls and brought down pots and pans, eggs, flour, butter, and herbs, which they carried to the stove.

Who acts: pigs · What happens: seem, be, clamber up, bring down, carry · To what, where: herbs, scullions, walls, pots, stove

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	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 scullions	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 scullions	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 scullions	det
6	scullions	scullion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 seemed	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 clambered	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 clambered	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 clambered	nsubj
10	clambered	clamber	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 clambered	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 walls	det
13	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clambered	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 brought	cc
15	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 clambered	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 brought	compound:prt
17	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 brought	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pans	cc
19	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pots	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eggs	punct
21	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pots	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flour	punct
23	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pots	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 butter	punct
25	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flour	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 herbs	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 herbs	cc
28	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 seemed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 carried	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 carried	obj
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 carried	nsubj
32	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 herbs	acl:relcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 stove	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 stove	det
35	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carried	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	seem	past	pigs = pig	herbs		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	pigs = pig not said here	the scullions		tree rules
3	clamber up	past	pigs = pig	the walls		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme
4	bring down	past	pigs = pig not said here	pots and pans and eggs and flour and butter		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pot=Theme
5	carry	past	pigs = pig	herbs	the stove	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme to stove=Destination

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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