The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 83

He could make all the most difficult dishes, and two hundred different kinds of patties, soup flavoured with every sort of herb--he had learnt it all, and learnt it well and quickly.

Who acts: scent · What happens: make, flavour, learn, sort · To what, where: difficult dishes, soup, kind, herb

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 dishes	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dishes	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 difficult	advmod
7	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dishes	amod
8	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kinds	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kinds	cc
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hundred	compound
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 kinds	nummod
13	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kinds	amod
14	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 patties	case
16	patties	patty	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 kinds	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 soup	punct
18	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kinds	appos
19	flavoured	flavour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 soup	acl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 sort	case
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 sort	det
22	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flavoured	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 herb	case
24	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sort	nmod
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 learnt	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 learnt	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 learnt	aux
28	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 make	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 learnt	obj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 it	det
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 learnt	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 learnt	cc
33	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 learnt	obj
35	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 learnt	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 quickly	cc
37	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	35 well	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	could	scent	all difficult dishes		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset dish=Beneficiary kind=Product
2	flavour	participle		soup not said here	with every sort of herb	tree rules
3	learn	past · perfect	scent	kind		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	learn	past	scent not said here	kind	well property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	sort			herb		nom sort «cognition 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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