The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 79

First he learned to clean her cocoa-nut shoes with oil and to rub them up.

Who acts: scent · What happens: learn, clean, rub up · To what, where: nut shoes, shoes

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 (scent), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 learned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learned	nsubj
3	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 clean	mark
5	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learned	xcomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shoes	nmod:poss
7	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nut	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 cocoa	punct
9	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shoes	compound
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clean	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 oil	case
12	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clean	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rub	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 rub	mark
15	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 clean	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rub	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 rub	compound:prt
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	learn	past	scent		first property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	clean	to-infinitive	scent not said here	woman's nut shoes	with oil	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient with oil=Instrument
3	rub up	to-infinitive	scent not said here	shoes = shoe		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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