The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 9

He used to sit by his mother in the market and would carry home what people bought from her, for which they often gave him a pretty flower, or a slice of cake, or even some small coin.

Who acts: boy, people · What happens: use, sit, carry, buy, give, slice · To what, where: market, pretty flower, boy, cake

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 (boy, people), 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 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sit	mark
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 mother	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 market	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 market	det
10	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 carry	cc
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 carry	aux
13	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 carry	advmod
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 carry	obj
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bought	nsubj
17	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 what	acl:relcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bought	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gave	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 gave	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	nsubj
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 gave	advmod
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bought	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	iobj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 flower	det
28	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 flower	amod
29	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 slice	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 slice	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 slice	det
33	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 cake	case
35	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 slice	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 coin	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 coin	cc
38	even	even	ADV	_	41 coin	advmod
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 coin	det
40	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 coin	amod
41	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 slice	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past	boy					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sit	to-infinitive	boy not said here			the market	by boy's mother	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by mother=Location
3	carry	would	boy not said here				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
4	buy	past	people				from Jem	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from she=Source
5	give	past	people	a pretty flower	boy		a slice of cake or some small coin obl; often property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient flower=Theme for which=Asset
6	slice			cake				nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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