The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 74
As he was finishing it the guinea pigs lit some Arabian incense, which gradually filled the room with clouds of blue vapour.
Who acts: smell, guinea pigs, Arabian incense · What happens: finish, lit, fill, cloud · To what, where: soup, Arabian incense, room, blue vapour
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 (smell, guinea pigs, Arabian incense), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 finishing | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finishing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finishing | aux |
| 4 | finishing | finish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lit | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finishing | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pigs | det |
| 7 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pigs | compound |
| 8 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lit | nsubj |
| 9 | lit | lit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 incense | det |
| 11 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 incense | amod |
| 12 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lit | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 filled | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 filled | nsubj |
| 15 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 16 filled | advmod |
| 16 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 incense | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 filled | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 clouds | case |
| 20 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 room | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 vapour | case |
| 22 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 vapour | amod |
| 23 | vapour | vapour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clouds | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · progressive | smell | soup | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lit | present | the guinea pigs | some Arabian incense | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fill | past | some Arabian incense | the room | with clouds of blue vapour; gradually property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with cloud=Instrument | |||
| 4 | cloud | blue vapour | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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