The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 98
But won’t she scold me, though, for sleeping away here in a strange house, instead of helping her at market!’
Who acts: mother · What happens: not scold, sleep away, help · To what, where: me, strange house, mother, market
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 (mother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 scold | cc |
| 2 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 scold | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 scold | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scold | nsubj |
| 5 | scold | scold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 scold | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 though | punct |
| 8 | though | though | ADV | _ | 5 scold | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sleeping | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 sleeping | mark |
| 11 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 scold | parataxis |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 sleeping | advmod |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 sleeping | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 16 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sleeping | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 helping | punct |
| 19 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 helping | mark |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 instead | fixed |
| 21 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sleeping | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 helping | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 market | case |
| 24 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 helping | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 scold | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 scold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not scold | future | mother | me | though property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | sleep away | gerund | a strange house; here | away property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | ||||
| 3 | help | gerund | mother | market | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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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