The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 87
Then he went to fetch the herbs to stuff it with.
Who acts: scent · What happens: go, fetch, stuff · To what, where: herbs, skin
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fetch | mark |
| 5 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 herbs | det |
| 7 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fetch | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stuff | mark |
| 9 | stuff | stuff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fetch | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stuff | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 stuff | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | scent | then | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fetch | to-infinitive | scent not said here | the herbs | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stuff | to-infinitive | scent not said here | skin | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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