The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 89
He peeped in and saw a lot of baskets from which came a strong and pleasant smell.
Who acts: scent, baskets · What happens: peep, see, come · To what, where: lot, strong smell
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, baskets), 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 peeped | nsubj |
| 2 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 peeped | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 peeped | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lot | det |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 baskets | case |
| 9 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lot | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 baskets | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 smell | det |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 smell | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pleasant | cc |
| 16 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 strong | conj |
| 17 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep | past | scent | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | past | scent not said here | a lot of baskets | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | baskets | a strong smell | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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