The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 88
In the store-room he noticed a half-opened cupboard which he did not remember having seen before.
Who acts: scent · What happens: notice, open, not remember, not have, see · To what, where: opened cupboard, store room
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 room | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 3 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 room | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 store | punct |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noticed | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 noticed | nsubj |
| 7 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cupboard | det |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 11 opened | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 half | punct |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cupboard | amod |
| 12 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noticed | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 remember | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 remember | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 remember | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 remember | advmod |
| 17 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cupboard | acl:relcl |
| 18 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 remember | xcomp |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 having | xcomp |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 19 seen | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | scent | a opened cupboard | the store room | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cupboard=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | open | participle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not remember | past · do-support | scent | a opened cupboard | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | not have | gerund | scent not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | participle | scent not said here | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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