The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 71
The child could not think what she was talking about, but he quite understood the soup, which tasted most delicious.
Who acts: child, boy, soup · What happens: not think, talk about, understand, taste · To what, where: soup
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 (child, boy, soup), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 think | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 talking | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 talking | aux |
| 9 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 talking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 understood | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 understood | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 understood | nsubj |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 understood | advmod |
| 15 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 soup | det |
| 17 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 understood | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tasted | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 tasted | nsubj |
| 20 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 soup | acl:relcl |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 delicious | advmod |
| 22 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tasted | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | could | the child | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | talk about | past · progressive | child | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | understand | past | boy | the soup | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer soup=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | taste | past | the soup | delicious property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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