The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 100
When the head cook came in with Jem everyone stood quite still.
Who acts: head cook · What happens: come in, stand
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head cook), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cook | det |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cook | compound |
| 4 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stood | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 everyone | case |
| 8 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 everyone | compound |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 stood | obl |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 still | advmod |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 stood | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | the head cook | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | still | with everyone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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