The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 82
Here he worked his way up from under-scullion to head-pastrycook, and reached the greatest perfection.
Who acts: scent · What happens: work up, reach · To what, where: way, scullion, greatest perfection
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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 worked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 worked | nsubj |
| 3 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worked | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 worked | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 scullion | case |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 scullion | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 under | punct |
| 10 | scullion | scullion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worked | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pastrycook | mark |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pastrycook | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 head | punct |
| 14 | pastrycook | pastrycook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scullion | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reached | cc |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 worked | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 perfection | det |
| 19 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 perfection | amod |
| 20 | perfection | perfection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work up | past | scent | scent's way | scullion; here | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material | |||
| 2 | reach | past | scent not said here | the greatest perfection | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent perfection=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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