The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 72
His mother had often given him nice things, but nothing had ever seemed so good as this.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: give, seem · To what, where: mother, boy
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 (nothing), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 given | advmod |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 given | iobj |
| 7 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 given | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 seemed | cc |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seemed | aux |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 seemed | advmod |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 this | case |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 good | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | boy's mother | boy | often property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seem | past | nothing | ever | good property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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