The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 81
In this way he passed from one kind of service to another, spending a year in each, till in the fourth year he was promoted to the kitchen.
Who acts: scent, fourth year · What happens: pass, spend, promote · To what, where: way, each, scent
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, fourth year), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 kind | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 kind | nummod |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 service | case |
| 10 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 another | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 service | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spending | punct |
| 14 | spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 passed | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 year | det |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spending | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 each | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 spending | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 year | punct |
| 20 | till | till | ADP | _ | 24 year | case |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 year | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 year | det |
| 23 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 year | amod |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spending | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 promoted | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 promoted | aux:pass |
| 27 | promoted | promote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 year | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 kitchen | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 kitchen | det |
| 30 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 promoted | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | scent | this way | from one kind of service to another | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location | |||
| 2 | spend | gerund | each | year | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | promote | past · passive | the fourth year not said here | scent | to the kitchen | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: subject=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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