The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 102
‘Sir, his highness has graciously ordered a Danish soup and red Hamburg dumplings.’
What happens: order · To what, where: Sir
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: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 highness | nmod:poss |
| 5 | highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ordered | aux |
| 7 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 8 ordered | advmod |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 soup | det |
| 10 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 soup | amod |
| 11 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dumplings | cc |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dumplings | amod |
| 14 | Hamburg | Hamburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 dumplings | compound |
| 15 | dumplings | dumpling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 soup | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | present · perfect · passive | Sir | graciously property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary soup=Theme |
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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