The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 92
He gazed at the flower, smelt it, and found it gave the same strong strange perfume which came from the soup the old woman had made him.
Who acts: scent, flower, same strong strange perfume, soup · What happens: gaze, smelt, find, give, come, make · To what, where: flower, same strong strange perfume, soup, old woman · Speech: someone speaks here
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, flower, same strong strange perfume, soup), 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 gazed | nsubj |
| 2 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 flower | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flower | det |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gazed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 smelt | punct |
| 7 | smelt | smelt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gazed | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 smelt | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gazed | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 perfume | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 perfume | amod |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 perfume | amod |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 perfume | amod |
| 18 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 perfume | acl:relcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 soup | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 soup | det |
| 23 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 woman | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 woman | amod |
| 26 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 made | aux |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 soup | acl:relcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | scent | at the flower | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smelt | infinitive | scent not said here | flower | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | past | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | give | past | flower | the same strong strange perfume | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | the same strong strange perfume | the soup | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from soup=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | make | past · perfect · passive | the soup not said here | the old woman | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product |
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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