The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 85
He did this quite according to rule.
Who acts: scent · What happens: do, accord, rule · To what, where: this
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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 5 | according | accord | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 did | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 rule | mark |
| 7 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 according | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | scent | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | scent not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rule | to-infinitive | scent not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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