The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 84
When he had lived seven years with the old woman she ordered him one day, as she was going out, to kill and pluck a chicken, stuff it with herbs, and have it very nicely roasted by the time she got back.
Who acts: scent, woman, stuff · What happens: live, order, go out, kill, pluck, chicken · To what, where: old woman, scent, time
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, woman, stuff), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 lived | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | aux |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 have | advcl |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 woman | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ordered | nsubj |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 woman | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ordered | obj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 day | nummod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ordered | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 going | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 going | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | aux |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 lived | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 going | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kill | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 kill | mark |
| 24 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pluck | cc |
| 26 | pluck | pluck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 kill | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 chicken | det |
| 28 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pluck | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stuff | punct |
| 30 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 chicken | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 chicken | nsubj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 herbs | case |
| 33 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 pluck | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 have | cc |
| 36 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 roasted | aux |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 have | obj |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 nicely | advmod |
| 39 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 40 roasted | advmod |
| 40 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 time | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 time | det |
| 43 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 roasted | obl |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 got | nsubj |
| 45 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 time | acl:relcl |
| 46 | back | back | ADV | _ | 45 got | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 roasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · perfect | scent | year | with the old woman | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with woman=Location | |||
| 2 | order | past | woman | the old woman not said here | scent | day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 3 | go out | past · progressive | woman | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | pluck | infinitive | with herbs | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | chicken | stuff | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | roast | present · perfect | time | nicely property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | get back | past | woman | the time not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus |
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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