The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 108
Let me have some eggs, a piece of wild boar, and such and such roots and herbs for the soup; and as for the dumplings,’ he added in a low voice to the head cook, ‘I shall want four different kinds of meat, some wine, a duck’s marrow, some ginger, and a herb called heal-well.’
Who acts: you, me, piece, I, herb · What happens: let, have, add, want, call · To what, where: me, eggs, low voice, four different kinds, heal · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, me, piece, I), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 eggs | det |
| 5 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 piece | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eggs | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 boar | case |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boar | amod |
| 11 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 roots | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 roots | cc |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 roots | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 such | cc |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 such | conj |
| 17 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Let | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 herbs | cc |
| 19 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 roots | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 soup | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 soup | det |
| 22 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 roots | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 added | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 dumplings | cc |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 dumplings | advmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 dumplings | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dumplings | det |
| 28 | dumplings | dumpling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 added | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dumplings | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 dumplings | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 added | nsubj |
| 32 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 voice | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 voice | det |
| 35 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 voice | amod |
| 36 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 added | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 cook | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 cook | det |
| 39 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 cook | compound |
| 40 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 added | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 want | punct |
| 42 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 want | punct |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 want | nsubj |
| 44 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 want | aux |
| 45 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 added | advcl |
| 46 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 kinds | nummod |
| 47 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 kinds | amod |
| 48 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 want | obj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 meat | case |
| 50 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 kinds | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 wine | punct |
| 52 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 53 wine | det |
| 53 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 meat | conj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 marrow | punct |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 duck | det |
| 56 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 marrow | nmod:poss |
| 57 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 56 duck | case |
| 58 | marrow | marrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 meat | conj |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 ginger | punct |
| 60 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 61 ginger | det |
| 61 | ginger | ginger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 kinds | nmod |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 well | punct |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 69 well | cc |
| 64 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 65 herb | det |
| 65 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 well | nsubj |
| 66 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 65 herb | acl |
| 67 | heal | heal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 called | xcomp |
| 68 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 67 heal | punct |
| 69 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 1 Let | discourse |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 69 well | punct |
| 71 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | such roots for the soup and herbs obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | infinitive | me not said here | some eggs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past | piece | a low voice | for the dumplings; to the head cook | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to cook=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | want | shall | I | four different kinds of meat and some wine and a duck's marrow some ginger | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kind=Theme | ||||
| 5 | call | participle | a herb not said here | heal | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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