The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 99

He jumped up and prepared to go: all his limbs still seemed quite stiff with his long sleep, especially his neck, for he could not move his head easily, and he laughed at his own stupidity at being still so drowsy that he kept knocking his nose against the wall or cupboards.

Who acts: house, limbs · What happens: jump up, prepare, go, seem, not move, laugh · To what, where: head, own stupidity, nose, wall

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 (house, limbs), 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 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 jumped	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 prepared	cc
5	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 jumped	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 prepared	xcomp
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 limbs	det:predet
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 limbs	nmod:poss
11	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seemed	nsubj
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 seemed	advmod
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	parataxis
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 stiff	advmod
15	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seemed	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 sleep	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sleep	nmod:poss
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sleep	amod
19	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stiff	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 neck	punct
21	especially	especially	ADV	_	23 neck	advmod
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 neck	nmod:poss
23	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sleep	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 move	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 move	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 move	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 move	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 move	advmod
29	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seemed	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 move	obj
32	easily	easily	ADV	_	29 move	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 laughed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 laughed	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 laughed	nsubj
36	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	conj
37	at	at	ADP	_	40 stupidity	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 stupidity	nmod:poss
39	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 stupidity	amod
40	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 laughed	obl
41	at	at	ADP	_	45 drowsy	case
42	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 drowsy	cop
43	still	still	ADV	_	45 drowsy	advmod
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 drowsy	advmod
45	drowsy	drowsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 laughed	obl
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 kept	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 kept	nsubj
48	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 drowsy	advcl
49	knocking	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 kept	xcomp
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 nose	nmod:poss
51	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 knocking	obj
52	against	against	ADP	_	54 wall	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 wall	det
54	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 knocking	obl
55	or	or	CCONJ	_	56 cupboards	cc
56	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 wall	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump up	past	house					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	prepare	participle	house not said here					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	house not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seem	past	house's limbs			still	stiff property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	not move	could	house	house's head			easily property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
6	laugh	past	house		house's own stupidity			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	gerund				still	drowsy property	tree rules
8	keep	past	house					tree rules
9	knock	gerund	house not said here	house's nose	the wall or cupboards			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent nose=Theme against wall=Destination
10	sleep		house					nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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