The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 90
He opened one and found a very uncommon herb in it.
Who acts: scent · What happens: open, find · To what, where: one, uncommon herb, lot
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 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 opened | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 herb | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 uncommon | advmod |
| 8 | uncommon | uncommon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 herb | amod |
| 9 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | scent | one | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | scent not said here | a uncommon herb | lot | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Topic |
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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